The first National Doughnut Day was celebrated in 1938 as a way to honor the Donut Lassies and their morale-boosting efforts.
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Now, 78 years later, you can still pay homage to the Doughnut Lassies while enjoying a delicious and free doughnut in their memory.
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Here are all the restaurants and brands that are taking notes from the Doughnut Lassies and giving away free doughnuts to lift our spirits.
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During WWI, female Salvation Army volunteers, who were given our all-time favorite nickname "Donut Lassies", served coffee and doughnuts to soldiers in France.
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Tighten your bodices, lassies — the better to let them rip: Starz streams the first episode of the new season in advance of its broadcast on Saturday.
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The day, established by the Salvation Army, celebrates volunteers―called "Doughnut Lassies"― who served soldiers with the sweet comfort food in France during World War I. You see!
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Take a look ahead to see where to get freebies on National Doughnut Day this Friday, June 1 and remember to take some time to thank the Lassies while you're enjoying those free doughnuts.
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National Doughnut Day originally began as a way to celebrate the female volunteers for the Salvation Army who were serving doughnuts to soldiers in World War I (known as The Doughnut Lassies), and now it's become a national phenomenon, with many of the country's top doughnut shops offering special deals to commemorate the holiday.
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National Donut Day started in 0003, created by the Salvation Army as a way to commemorate the women who served fresh, hot donuts to American soldiers in France to boost morale during World War I. These women, who were dubbed "Donut Lassies," are credited for increasing the popularity of donuts in the U.S. when they returned home after the war was over.
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Celebrated annually on the first Friday in June, the day of the pastry was established in 1938 to honor The Salvation Army Donut Lassies, women who served the treats to soldiers during World War I. "The doughnut was and continues to be a symbol of the comfort and support that The Salvation Army provides to more than 23 million people in need each year," said Lt. Col.
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It knows that having a show with women dressed up as come-hither Scottish lassies on loan from Rob Roy's fantasies in teeny tiny panties, over-the-knee argyle socks, push-up plaid bras and pleated tartan miniskirts during the same week that more than 100 female politicians from around the world gathered in the House of Commons in Britain to commemorate women's suffrage, and the same week that an unprecedented number of women of all races and ages and sizes was elected to Congress was perhaps not the best timing.
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286 and with a .965 fielding percentage. During the 1950 season, Baker was traded to the Kalamazoo Lassies to act as player- manager. The struggling Lassies placed last in the league with a 36-73 record.
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Grand Rapids starter Risinger dominated the Lassies, 4–1, aided by a two-run double in the sixth inning by Ricketts. Doris Sams lined a home run for the Lassies only run.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000.
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In the best-of-three final series, the Grand Rapids Chicks, with Woody English at the helm, faced the Kalamazoo Lassies, managed by Mitch Skupien. Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo to clinch the 1953 Championship Title. In Game 1, at Grand Rapids, Mary Lou Studnicka limited the Lassies to two runs in eight innings for a 5–2 victory. With the score tied 2–2 going into the fourth inning, the Chicks loaded the bases against Lassies’ pitcher Gloria Cordes.
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O'Hara, p. 43 In 1939 she recorded The Blackbird, The Spinning Wheel and Three Lovely Lassies for HMV.
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Joan played for the Chicago Colleens (in 1949 and 1950), Kalamazoo Lassies (in 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953).
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Applegren opened 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies, managed by Buzz Boyle, as the league usually switched players as needed to help new teams to be competitive. Nevertheless, the Lassies went 46-66 their first year, good enough for a modest sixth place in the now eight-team league. Applegren struggled to an 8-18 record, even though she hurled a no-hitter against the Grand Rapids Chicks on July 31.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book1946 Muskegon Lassies. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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450 average in the Series and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history. In the end, the inspired Lassies rose to the challenge and batted .337 as a team. On the other hand, the usually heavy-hitting Daisies averaged only .
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195 for the Lassies, while collecting career-numbers in games (53), at-bats (123), runs batted in (12) and hits (24).
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The Lassies combined for a 36-73 record that year and finished in the cellar. The Lassies ended 1951 with a mark of 33 wins, 75 losses and two ties, but moved up one spot in the final standings. In 1952, the team finished fifth of six teams with a 49-60 record, their best yet.
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400 (6-for-15) and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in league history.
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For the second consecutive year the Comets gained a playoff berth and were defeated in the start, this time by the expansion Muskegon Lassies.
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The poster features a woman holding plate of doughnuts and a "Doughboy" eating a donut. He urges viewers to keep the "Lassies" on the job by donating to The Salvation Army. Lassies were women of The Salvation Army who performed duties like writing letters home, praying over fallen soldiers, and making doughnuts for the soldiers. Richards exhibited his work for the MacDowell Club Exhibitions in 1917.
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In Kalamazoo, with cold weather around 40 degrees and windy, both teams' managers agreed to play the Game 2 in just seven innings. Grand Rapids starter Risinger dominated the Lassies, 4–1, aided by a two-run double in the sixth inning by Ricketts. Doris Sams lined a home run for the Lassies only run.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Rules of Play 1948 Muskegon Lassies 1949 Muskegon Lassies In 1950 Pryer returned to the Lassies. She started the year in Muskegon, moved with the team to Kalamazoo during the midseason, and landed in South Bend late in the year. But she was still finding ways to improve her game, regardless of moving to different towns, bolstering her average to .269 (115-for-497) with 75 runs and 25 RBI, while matching her season-high of 112 games.1950 Muskegon Lassies 1950 South Bend Blue Sox Pryer had her most productive season in 1951, when she posted career-numbers with a .312 average, 133 hits, 106 runs, 32 RBI and 129 stolen bases in 109 games, leading the league in hits, runs and steals, while ranking seventh to Betty Foss of the Fort Wayne Daisies, who won the batting crown with a .
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Kotil was promoted to the Muskegon Lassies in 1950. During the midseason, the league was losing money and fans, and the teams and host cities were changing almost every year. By the time, baseball was booming in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This was a good fact for Kalamazoo, as the city was granted the Lassies franchise on a trial basis when the city of Muskegon could no longer support them.
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During her professional baseball career, Marion played for two teams: the Peoria Redwings (eight games in 1946) and the Muskegon Lassies (in 1947). She has been called a tall southpaw. She took home $55 a week and all expenses paid during her professional career. Quite shortly after she signed a contract with the Lassies, during spring training in Cuba, she broke her leg while sliding into home plate.
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Grand Rapids, with Woody English at the helm, swept the Kalamazoo Lassies in the final best-of-three series.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden.
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In 1950 the AAGPBL was losing money and fans, and the teams and host cities were changing almost every year. This was a good thing for Kalamazoo as the city was granted the Muskegon Lassies team on a trial basis when the city of Muskegon could no longer support them. The move took place in the middle of the season and the new Kalamazoo Lassies played their first game, still in their Muskegon uniforms, on 15 June 1950 at Lindstrom Field. About 1,400 fans attended the game, which was won by the defending league champion Rockford Peaches, 8–2. The new Lassies posted their first victory the next night, a 10–2 rout of Rockford led by pitcher Doris Sams and player-manager Bonnie Baker.
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Her most productive season came in 1954, when she posted career-highs in average (.268), home runs (8) and RBI (58). She also earned her fifth All-Star selection and was a member of the Kalamazoo Lassies Champion team, during what turned out to be the AAGPBL final season. She formed part of some Lassies rallies in the final Series against the Fort Wayne Daisies, which included a towering home run off Maxine Kline in Game One.
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She also served as player-manager with the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1950, becoming the only woman in league history to do so. Besides, she was one of 64 Canadian players in the AAGPBL, while her sister, Genevieve George, also played in the league for the Lassies. With the majority of major-league baseball players in the military during World War II, Phil Wrigley owner of the Chicago Cubs, established the AAGPBL in 1943. It continued play until 1954.
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Pryer entered the league in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies, playing for them through the 1950 midseason before joining the Kalamazoo Lassies (1950) and South Bend Blue Sox (1950–1952). In her rookie season, she hit .202 in 108 games, including 77 hits and 18 runs batted in while scoring 64 times. Considering the AAGPBL was using underhand pitching and a ball with a 11-inch circumference, her numbers were quite respectable. In 1947 Pryer improved to .
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1950 became a nightmare for Muskegon, after registering the worst record in the league (36-73) and a relocation during the midseason to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where the team was renamed the Kalamazoo Lassies.
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In the end, the inspired Lassies rose to the challenge and batted a .337 average as a team. On the other hand, the usually heavy-hitting Daisies averaged only .275.1954 AAGPBL Championship Title.
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She then turned in a competent defensive player and a solid hitter. She spent part of two seasons with Muskegon, and was dealt back to Rockford during the 1949 midseason.1948 Muskegon Lassies.
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1946 Muskegon Lassies Front row, L-R: Alva Jo Fischer, Dorothy Maguire, Elizabeth Wicken, Charlene Pryer, Miss Hack, Erma Bergmann. Second row, L-R: Eunice Kessler (chaperone), Sara Reeser, Pauline Martin, Donna Cook, Arleene Johnson, Dorothy Montgomery, Josephine Lenard, Buzz Boyle (manager). Back row, L-R: Lavina Keough, Mary Rini, Amy Applegren, Joanne Overleese, Margaret Wenzell. The Muskegon Lassies were one of the expansion teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1946 season, representing Muskegon, Michigan.
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Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. Pearson entered the league in 1948 with the Muskegon Lassies, playing for them for one year before joining the Peoria Redwings (1949), Racine Belles (1950), Battle Creek Belles (1951), Kalamazoo Lassies (1951–1952), South Bend Blue Sox (1953) and Grand Rapids Chicks (1954). On the last day of her rookie season, Pearson celebrated her 16th birthday to everybody's surprise, because everyone thought she was already 16 (the minimum age according to the rules), so she had played illegally all year.
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She then won two games and returned to school to finish out the school year. Williams started 1950 with South Bend, but was traded to the Peoria Redwings during the midseason and ended the year with the Kalamazoo Lassies. She combined for a 5–10 record with a 3.47 ERA in just 19 games. She did not have much run support from the Lassies and recorded losing records for the remaining three years of career by going 10–11, 10–12 and 8–12.
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Kalamazoo improved in 1953, ending third at 59-50-2 and reaching the playoffs for the first time. After dropping the opener to the first-place Fort Wayne Daisies, Kalamazoo won 2–1 and 5–3 as Jean Lovell got a couple big hits. But the Lassies lost both games in the finals to the Grand Rapids Chicks. In the 1954 season, the Lassies posted a 48-49-1 record and finished fourth of five teams, earning the right to go to the playoffs.
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He ordered them to stay the night, and share his three daughters' beds. He put gold chains about his daughters' necks, and straw chains about the lassies'; or chunks of amber about his daughters' necks and horsehair about the lassies'. So Molly, the youngest switched them. In the middle of the night, the giant beat his daughters to death, or sent a servant to bring him the blood of the strange girls to drink because there was no water, and the servant killed them.
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301 average, was 3rd in slugging (.419), and tied for 5th in home runs (4). It was the last season she pitched on a regular basis, going 12–13 with a 2.60 ERA, as she made her third All-Star Team. During the midseason, poor attendance in Muskegon forced the movement of the struggling Lassies to Kalamazoo, Michigan. The change of scenery did not help, as the now Kalamazoo Lassies finished in the cellar with the worst record of the league (36-73-2).
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Marilyn Jones limited the Lassies to four runs on nine hits. Phyllis Baker was the winning pitcher and Gloria Cordes was the loser. In Game 3, the Daisies beat the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting from Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs. Peppas went 1-for-4 to spark a seventh inning three-run rally, but Fort Wayne came back in the bottom of the inning with two runs that marked the difference.
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In the final series, The Grand Rapids Chicks swept the Kalamazoo Lassies in the best of three game set, by the scores of 5–2 and 4–1. In Game 1 Studnicka started for Grand Rapids and allowed only two runs in eight innings of work. With the score tied 2–2 going into the fourth inning, the Chicks scored three runs off Lassies’ pitcher Gloria Cordes. A tie- breaking sacrifice fly by Alma Ziegler scored Dolores Moore, and another RBI sacrifice fly Voyce put the Chicks up 4–2.
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In the final series, The Grand Rapids Chicks swept the Kalamazoo Lassies in the best of three game set, by the scores of 5–2 and 4–1. In Game 1, Studnicka started for Grand Rapids and allowed only two runs in eight innings of work. With the score tied 2–2 going into the fourth inning, the Chicks scored three runs off Lassies’ pitcher Gloria Cordes. A tie-breaking sacrifice fly by Alma Ziegler scored Dolores Moore, and another RBI sacrifice fly Inez Voyce put the Chicks up 4–2.
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She also made the league's All-Star Team, forming part of a Lassies All-Star slick infield that included June Peppas at first base, Dorothy Schroeder at shortstop, and Fern Shollenberger at third base. Meanwhile, the called Home Run Twins, Chris Ballingall (17) and Carol Habben (15), powered the offense with 32 home runs; Peppas and Schroeder enjoyed big numbers, and Kalamazoo advanced to the Championship Series. As a result, the Lassies defeated the Daisies in a best-of-five games series, during what turned out to be the AAGPBL final season.
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Elaine Roth relieved Cordes and completed the game. But the Lassies hit three more home runs, one each by Jean Geissinger and the Foss-Weaver sisters. Kalamazoo discounted the margin with leadoff homers by Nancy Mudge, Peppas (playing at first base) and Dorothy Schroeder, but the game's outcome was never in doubt. In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at-bats, driving in four runs.
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In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history.
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1953 Kalamazoo Lassies Stoll saw reduced playing time in 1954, but she responded with a .302 average in just 34 games, while Kalamazoo would win the only AAGPBL Championship in five years of team history. With the league reduced to five teams, due partly to financial problems and the difficulty of recruiting new players, the Lassies posted a fourth-place record of 48-49. In the first round of the playoffs, Kalamazoo defeated the second-place South Bend (48-44), two to one games, behind the strong pitching of Nancy Warren and Elaine Roth.
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Language: English. Lovell entered the AAGPBL in 1948 with the Rockford Peaches, winning back-to-back championships with the Peaches 1949-'49 teams. While having played only 52 and 26 games in her first two professional seasons, she became a full-time player after moving to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them in 1950 and 1951. She was traded to the Kenosha Comets for the second half of the 1951 season, but rejoined the Lassies in the summer of 1952, with whom she played the rest of her career, including for the 1954 champion team.
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Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Softcover, 438pp. Though she was primarily an outfielder, Walulik was a solid utility player, serving as spot starter and long reliever when not playing at second base. "Hensky", as her teammates called her, entered the league in 1948 with the Muskegon Lassies,1948 Muskegon Lassies playing for them briefly before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies during the midseason. She helped Fort Wayne make the 1948 playoffs, after posting a 2–6 record and a 3.07 earned run average in 91 innings of work.
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Carlson appears as a member of the Muskegon Lassies club during its 1949 season. She did not have individual records or some information was incomplete.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company.
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Her most productive seasons came with the Lassies, when she was selected at first base for the All-Star Team in 1953 and 1954, even though she often pitched. From 1952 to 1953, Peppas improved her batting averages from .
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In the end, the inspired Lassies rose to the challenge and batted a .337 average as a team. On the other hand, the usually heavy-hitting Daisies averaged only .275.All- American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden.
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Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Paperback, 438pp. Language: English. Hutchison entered the AAGPBL in 1944 with the Racine Belles, playing for them five years before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1949).
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Going in the ninth inning, the Lassies were down 1–0 in their last at bat. Naum stepped up to the plate and helped herself after hitting a home run over the fence to tie the game at 1–1.
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A year after the club came to Grand Rapids, Muskegon joined the league with its Lassies. In 1950 the Lassies moved to Kalamazoo, and Battle Creek joined the list of AAGPBL host cities in 1951 when the original Belles moved to Battle Creek from Racine, Wisconsin, and kept the same nickname.AbsoluteMichigan.com – Michigan History Sluggers in Skirts The Belles finished last in the first half of the 1951 season with an 11-45 record before improving to 19-35 in the second half for a 30-80 overall. The team posted a 43-67 record in the 1952 season, and finished in last place.
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In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Mary Taylor (5-for-5), Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average in the Series and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history.
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Kalamazoo Public Library – The Kalamazoo Lassies (1950-1954) Then, Kotil was sent to the South Bend Blue Sox in the same transaction that brought pitcher Lillian Faralla to the Kalamazoo Lassies. The next year she was a member of the 1951 Blue Sox champion team, even though she did not play during the postseason. Arlene Kotil is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. At age, she currently resides in Palos Heights, Illinois.Intelius.
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In 1947, Little was playing in a Muskegon factory league when an AAGPBL scout signed her to a contract, as she went to Opa-locka, Florida for spring training. She was assigned to her home team, Muskegon Lassies, but she was never given enough playing time because already the Lassies had the slick- fielding Sara Reeser at first base. She then was reassigned to the Fort Wayne Daisies the next season and the same thing happened, as they used outstanding first sacker Betty Foss. Unable to crack the lineup as a regular, Little decided to leave the league.
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The team, managed by Carson Bigbee, finished in last place with a 41–84 record, 35 and a half games behind the Racine Belles in the Western Division. In 1949, the Sallies joined the Chicago Colleens as touring player development teams, while Leibrich replaced Bigbee as the team's manager. From 1951 through 1954 Liebrich worked as a chaperone for the Kalamazoo Lassies. In 1954, she was selected chaperone for the All-Star team and also was a member of the champion Lassies, managed by Mitch Skupien, during what turned out to be the league's final season.
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In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Mary Taylor (5-for-5), Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history.
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In 1953, she hit .194 with a .238 on-base percentage in a utility role, playing in the outfield, catching, and also pitching in case of an emergency. Then she was dealt by Rockford to the Kalamazoo Lassies before the 1954 season.
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Cordes relieved with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, but did not allow any damage for the remainder of the game. In other close score, the Lassies evened the Series in Game 4 with a victory over the Daisies, 6–5.
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Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. Cindrić entered the AAGPBL with the Muskegon Lassies in 1948, appearing for them in just three games before her season was cut short by a chipped bone in one of her fingers.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. Language: English. 1948 Springfield Sallies She divided her playing time with the Peoria Redwings and the Muskegon Lassies in the 1949 season, collecting a .
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According to All American League data, Miss Hack played for the Muskegon Lassies club in its 1946 season. Nevertheless, additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. – W. C. Madden.
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But Baumgartner moved around for a while, as the league shifted players as needed to help teams stay afloat. She started the 1950 spring training with the Kalamazoo Lassies, being traded to the South Bend Blue Sox at the start of the regular season.
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Madden, W. C. (2005) All- American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. She was signed as a pitcher and was added to the Muskegon Lassies roster, then was traded to the Springfield Sallies during the midseason. She posted a batting average of .
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Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. Keller was assigned to her home team, the Kalamazoo Lassies, during its 1951 season. Additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.
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Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. She entered the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1946 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them one year before joining the Kenosha Comets (1947–1951) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1952–1953).
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Eileen O'Brien (May 24, 1922 – August 30, 2015) played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1946. With the Muskegon Lassies, she had a batting average of .111 with two hits and 18 at-bats. She later taught in public schools in Chicago.
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The Daisies bounced back in Game 2, hitting five home runs against the Lassies to win, 11–4. Horstman started the feat with a two-run home run to open the score in the first inning. In the rest of the game, Betty Weaver Foss added two homers with five RBI, while her sister Joanne and Geissinger added solo shots. Peppas, Nancy Mudge and Dorothy Schroeder homered for Kalamazoo. In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs.
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At 19 age, Cordes entered the league in 1950 with the Lassies, based in Muskegon, Michigan. She pitched in nine games and was 0-5 on a team made up mainly of rookies from the traveling teams. It was a very bad season for the Lassies, who relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan in the middle of the year, and posted the worst record of the league with 36 wins, 73 losses and two ties. Although never credited with a no-hitter in the midseason because the contest ended in a 0-0 tie, she later defeated the South Bend Blue Sox, 1–0, behind a two-hit shutout.
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In Game 3, Grand Rapids starter Dorothy Mueller pitched well enough to beat Rockford, 4–3, and the Chicks advanced to the Championship Series to face the Kalamazoo Lassies, managed by Mitch Skupien, who have eliminated Fort Wayne in the other playoff contention.1953 AAGPBL Series In the final series, Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo in the best of three game set, by the scores of 5–2 and 4–1. In Game 1, Studnicka started for Grand Rapids and allowed only two runs in eight innings of work. With the score tied 2–2 going into the fourth inning, the Chicks scored three runs off Lassies’ pitcher Gloria Cordes.
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" The final two tracks are "The Chatham Lassies" and "Strictly Sambuca" which had combined live during Ross Couper's live duets with guitarist Tom Oakes for quite some time. For Blackhouse, "The Chatham Lassies" is reworked into an eight-minute composition that opens with the familiar and lively fiddle/acoustic guitar duet and skips along towards a more sedate pace, but with a full, rich sound." Closing track "Strictly Sambuca," on the other hand, written after "tunes and wild craic" at the Lock Inn, Fort Augustus, is a nine-minute "party tune" featuring pulsing beats, strong trance credentials and a whirlwind of fiddle and pipe solos.
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Besides Applegren, the revamped Lassies included top notch players as Jo Lenard (OF), Dorothy Maguire (C), Charlene Pryer (IF), Doris Sams (OF/P), Dorothy Stolze (IF), Nancy Warren (P) and Evelyn Wawryshyn (IF), among others. Muskegon (69-43) won a close pennant race with the Grand Rapids Chicks (65-47), having three of the top four leaders in earned run average with Sams (0.98), Applegren (1.06) and Warren (1.13), but failed in the first round of the playoffs dropping 3 of 4 games to the Racine Belles.1947 Muskegon Lassies. Retrieved 2019-03-25. In 1948 Applegren moved to first base as the league shifted strictly to overhand pitching.
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Heartless Harlots - Home 3/3/2012 - Erin go Brawl: AASRD Intraleague: Lucky Lassies vs. Sassy Shamrocks - Home 3/31/2012 - Spring Fling: AASRD Intraleague: Honey Bees vs. Tenacious Tulips - Home 4/14/2012 - Derby-Taunt Ball Doubleheader: AASRD (W) vs. Roller Derby Manchester (L) // CDTA (W) vs.
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Kit and Cyril Ó Céirín, Women of Ireland: a Biographic Dictionary, p.41 She was also active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Mary Jones, These obstreperous lassies: a history of the IWWU. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1988. (p. 22) and the Irish Pacifist Movement.
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But Earlene Risinger pitched a six-hit, 2–0 shutout in the next game to tie the series. In Game 3, Dorothy Mueller held Rockford to eight hits in a 4–3 win to send Grand Rapids into the finals. The Chicks swept the Lassies in the final series.
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In the playoffs, Rockford eliminated South Bend in four straight games. Faut went 0–2 with a 2.58 ERA in two starts. By edict of league president Max Carey, the playoff victory also made Rockford the regular season champion. In 1950, the Muskegon team became the Kalamazoo Lassies.
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In 1954, Ballingall posted a .242 batting average with 17 home runs and 40 runs batted in in 90 games. In the playoffs, she hit .444 with eight RBI and two home runs, including one grand slam, to help the Lassies clinch the AAGPBL last- ever championship title.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Official WebsiteMadden, W. C. (2005) All- American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. Rini was a below average pitcher during her AAGPBL career. She entered the league in 1945 with the Kenosha Comets, before joining the Muskegon Lassies in 1946.
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She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history.
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Theresa Klosowski was an American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Theresa Klosowski joined the league with the Muskegon Lassies in the 1948 season. She appeared in two games and went hitless in two at bats.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book.
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She was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951, but during the midseason was loaned to the Battle Creek Belles for five games, returning to Kalamazoo for the rest of the year. Allen posted a combined 3–10 record and a 6.21 earned run average in 24 games.
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1947 Muskegon Lassies. Retrieved 2019-03-26. She opened 1948 with the Chicago Colleens, and agreed to manage and serve as chaperone for them when it was converted into a player development team. Another former second base player, Barbara Liebrich, was named chaperone-manager for the Springfield Sallies.
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249 (105-for-422) in 108 games, scoring 51 runs while driving in 20 more. In addition, she was voted the best outfielder in the league with a fielding average of .995.1946 Muskegon Lassies1947 Muskegon Lassies Pryer increased her numbers in 1948, when the league switched to overhand pitching.
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A native of Watertown, Wisconsin, Tetzlaff came from a family of German origin. She was a valuable utility, playing mainly at third base for five different teams from through . Tetzlaff entered the league in 1944 with the Milwaukee Chicks,1944 Milwaukee Chicks playing for them one year before joining the Grand Rapids Chicks (1945–1947),1945 Grand Rapids Chicks1946 Grand Rapids Chicks1947 Grand Rapids Chicks Chicago Colleens (1948),1948 Chicago Colleens Fort Wayne Daisies (1948)1948 Fort Wayne Daisies and Muskegon Lassies (1949).1949 Muskegon Lassies She returned to the Daisies in ,1950 Ft Wayne Daisies serving as a chaperone and assistant coach for managers Jimmie Foxx and Bill Allington until the season.
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In Game 3, the Daisies defeated the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs. Peppas went 1-for-4 to spark a seventh inning three-run rally, but Fort Wayne came back in the bottom of the inning with two two runs that marked the difference. In another close score, the Lassies evened the Series in Game 4 with a victory over the Daisies, 6–5, behind a strong pitching effort by Gloria Cordes, who hurled a complete game. Peppas contributed with a single, a double and one RBI in four at-bats.
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A walking tour was organised by Ingenious Ireland on International Women's Day 2015 to celebrate the lives of Chenevix, Bennett, Helena Molony and Kathleen Clarke and to honour their work on behalf of the laundries. The tour was entitled "Obstreporous Lassies" and focused on the work the Irish Women's Workers Union.
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She also finished third in shutouts (5), seventh in innings (226), and tied for the third in complete games (24). On September 3 of that year, she hurled a perfect game against the Kalamazoo Lassies, 4–0, to become the only pitcher in the league's history to throw two perfect games.
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Alspaugh hit .240 in eight playoff games (6-for-25), including a double and one stolen base, while driving in one run and scoring four times. She opened 1949 with Rockford, but was traded to the Muskegon Lassies during the midseason.All- American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden.
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970 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions. Boyle also managed for the Muskegon Lassies of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 1946 season. Noted sports columnist Steve Rushin is his great-nephew. Boyle died in 1978 at his hometown of Cincinnati at the age of 70.
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The following year the league passed a rule banning female managers. Baker skipped the 1951 season to have a daughter, Maureen (Chickie), but returned to the Lassies for one year in 1952. She was an all star in 1943 and 1946, and played in 930 games in her career. She hit .
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Peggy L. Fenton (October 12, 1927 – June 16, 2013) played for the Muskegon Lassies and the South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1948 season. She batted and threw left-handed.All- American Girls Professional Baseball League – Peggy Fenton – Profile / Obituary. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
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Language: English. Nicknamed ״Mita״, Marrero became an instant favorite among her fellow players, who described her as a lively, intense and energetic. She entered the league with the Chicago Colleens, playing for them two years before joining the Kalamazoo Lassies (1950), Fort Wayne Daisies (1951) and Battle Creek Belles (1952).
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Davis was married and had a child before joining the league. She missed the 1945 season and returned with the expansion Muskegon Lassies during the 1946 midseason. She dropped to .202 in 58 games, driving in 31 runs while scoring 22 times, during what turned out to be her AAGPBL final season.
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Joyce Maureen Steele (December 25, 1935 – April 21, 2019) was a utility infielder/outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Obituary. Morning Times. Retrieved on April 24, 2019. Steele was a member of the Kalamazoo Lassies club during its 1953 season, while playing briefly at first base and outfield.
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She was called ″pepper pot″ by her teammates, because she was not afraid to go after any ground ball. Although the 1950 season became a nightmare for her team, after registering the worst record in the league and a relocation during the midseason to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where it was renamed the Kalamazoo Lassies.
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In 1952 Youngberg dropped to a .167 average in 86 games, but played solid defense at third while she was in the game. She split time with the South Bend Blue Sox and Muskegon Lassies in 1953, returning to the Chicks late in the year to be a part of the Championship team.
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In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs. In Game 4, starter Gloria Cordes helped Kalamazoo to tie the series, pitching a complete game victory over the Daisies, 6–5. Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game.
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Elaine Roth relieved Cordes and completed the game. But the Lassies hit three more home runs, one each by Jean Geissinger and the Foss-Weaver sisters. Kalamazoo discounted the margin with leadoff homers by Nancy Mudge, Peppas (playing at first base) and Dorothy Schroeder, but the game's outcome was never in doubt. In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs. Peppas went 1-for-4 to spark a seventh inning three-run rally, but Fort Wayne came back in the bottom of the inning with two two runs that marked the difference.
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In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Lassies defeated the Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from Peppas, who also helped herself by hitiing 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben, Fern Shollenberger and Chris Ballingall, who hit a grand slam, also slugged one each. Katie Horstman connected on two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with 3.23 ERA during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. The Daisies evened the Series against the Lassies winning Game 2, 11–4, after hitting five home runs off two pitchers.
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As an everyday center fielder in 1954, Habben hit a .276 average with a .363 OBP in 98 games, while slugging for a .445 average to become the second half of the called Home Run Twins, as she hit 15 home runs and Chris Ballingall belted 17 to power the Lassies to the Championship Title.
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Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Marlene Hammond played for her home team Kalamazoo Lassies in 1954, during what turned out to be the All American League's final season. Additional information about her is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. – W. C. Madden.
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Often used as a pinch- hitter when she was not pitching, she also was used in the outfield for defensive purposes. In addition, she was a member of the 1954 Champions Lassies, during what turned out to be the league's final season.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League1948 Fort Wayne Daisies.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden, McFarland & Company, 2000; The Fort Wayne Daisies advanced to the best-of-five game Championship Series. Previously in the playoffs, the Kalamazoo Lassies dispatched the South Bend Blue Sox in three games and Fort Wayne did the same with the Grand Rapids Chicks.
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Fort Wayne, with Bill Allington at the helm, clinched his third consecutive title and played third place Kalamazoo Lassies in the first round, being beaten for the third year in a row with identical margin of 1–2. Scott went 0–1 with a 3.00 ERA in nine innings.1953 Fort Wayne Daisies, aagpbl.
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Highlights of this period included visits to the Portland Rose Festival (where the ship was "streaked" on one occasion by two "lassies" on a nearby cabin cruiser), being struck by a practice torpedo fired by , and a series of excellent inspections that extended the service life of the destroyer through the end of the decade.
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077 average, but was a sure-handed fielder at second base. Kalamazoo ended the season in third place with a 56-50 record and defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies in the first round, two to one games, but lost to the Grand Rapids Chicks in the final series in just two games.1953 Kalamazoo Lassies. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book She was assigned to the Chicago Colleens development team in 1949.1949 Chicago Colleens. Retrieved 2019-03-28. The next season, she gained promotion to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them one and a half years before joining the Kenosha Comets during the 1951 midseason. Isora retired after marrying Raymundo Kinney.
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Donna Chartier was a utility infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Donna Chartier; retrieved 2019-03-28. Donna Chartier appeared as a member of the Kalamazoo Lassies club during its 1953 season. Nevertheless, the league stopped individual achievements after 1948, so individual accomplishments are complete only through 1948.
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She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average in the Series and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history. In four playoff appearances, Horstman was a .
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The Muskegon Belles were a women's professional baseball team that played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1953 season. The Belles represented Muskegon, Michigan and played their home games at Marsh Field. This made Muskegon the only city in AAGPBL history to host multiple teams. Previously, the Muskegon Lassies had played there from through .AbsoluteMichigan.
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She opened 1946 with the Muskegon Lassies, and suffered a dislocated shoulder to end her season after only eight games. In 1947 she batted a combined .097 in 31 games with the Peoria Redwings and the Fort Wayne Daisies.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book Wenzell played right field for the expansion Springfield Sallies in 1948.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Wet Original Air Date: 8 April 2002 Ralph gets a job collecting trolleys for a derisory wage. Carol goes on an unsatisfactory date with her old art teacher. One o' the lassies: "Waddya give him, continental or the full English?". Carol: "Cheese dip with no banger so I guess there's unfinished business".
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She added two homers, 40 runs and 33 RBI in 97 games, and also earned a fourth selection to the All-Star Team. The Lassies posted a measly record of 34–75 and finished in 7th place (out of 8th in the league).All- American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000.
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467, placing tenth in total bases (150). She also tied for third in doubles (14), and for fifth in runs (75) and stolen bases (26) while hitting 18 homers, two of them grand slams. South Bend advanced to the playoffs, only to be beaten in the best-of-three first round by the Kalamazoo Lassies. Wanless hit .
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In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, and Chris Ballingall belted a grand slam. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with 3.23 ERA for the Daisies during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Hortsman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. The Daisies bounced back in Game 2, hitting five home runs against the Lassies to win, 11–4.
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In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17-9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, and Chris Ballingall belted a grand slam. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18-7 record with 3.23 ERA for the Daisies during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. Cordes started for the Lassies in Game 2, which featured seven home runs by the two teams.
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In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitiing 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben, Fern Shollenberger and Chris Ballingall, who hit a grand slam, also slugged one each. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with 3.23 ERA during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. The Daisies evened the Series against the Lassies winning Game 2, 11–4, after hitting five home runs off two pitchers.
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In addition, she went to Havana, Cuba with the league to promote the game. When Norma played for the Lassies Trollies, she didn't play much as she was backup catcher behind Mickey Maguire. Her family donated 323 photos to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009. She also appears in the Diamond Dreams exhibit on the second floor of the museum.
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After spring training camp, Rockford decided that Cornett was not ready for the league and sent her to the Springfield Sallies rookie touring team to acquire more experience. In 1951 she was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies and was dealt to the Battle Creek Belles before the 1952 season.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W.C. Madden.
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The Kalamazoo Lassies were a team who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The team represented Kalamazoo, Michigan. Home games were initially played at Lindstrom Field, but later games were played at the Catholic Athletic Association Field, now the Soisson-Rapacz field. Kalamazoo uniforms were white (home) and gold (away) with dark green numbers, belt, socks, and cap.
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In that season, she was part of a Lassies All-Star slick infield that included June Peppas at first base, Nancy Mudge at second, and Fern Shollenberger at third. Meanwhile, the called Home Run Twins, Chris Ballingall (17) and Carol Habben (15), powered the offense with 32 home runs; Peppas enjoyed a year career, and Kalamazoo advanced to the Championship Series.
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McFarland & Company. The AAGPBL shipped Matlack to the Kalamazoo Lassies before the 1951 season, but she was feeling homesick and did not want return to the league. Following her baseball career, Matlack worked briefly at a restaurant before becoming a factory supervisor in 1952, staying with that organization in various capacities until her retirement in 1985.Heaphy, Leslie A.; May, Mel Anthony (2006).
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As reported, the live broadcast was in danger of going over-time. Despite signaling from the broadcast crew, conductor Bernard Herrmann didn't see any of the signalling but finished the work on time.Robert Reinhart, "Drama in Control Room Overshadows Irving Reis' CBS Lads and Lassies," Variety (October 27, 1937), 38. "It was a beautiful little work of Marc's," wrote Norman Lloyd.
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In the bottom of the seventh, the Lassies tried to rally again. Fern Shollenberger opened with a single, but Risinger retired the next two batters. Nevertheless, she lost her control temporarily and issued back-to-back walks to Schroeder and Peppas. With the bases loaded, Woody English was on the verge of yanking Risinger, but he instead sent Ziegler to the pitching mound.
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McFarland & Company. Moreover, she represented her team in the All-Star Game as a shortstop replacement. At the end of the season, Grand Rapids advanced to the playoffs and beat the Rockford Peaches in the best-of-three series first round, 2–1. The Chicks later swept the Kalamazoo Lassies in the final series, 2–0, to win the championship.
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Josephine Marsh was born in London in 1967 but has lived in County Clare since she was four. Her family returned to the area in 1971. She works as a full-time musician and teacher. Marsh has recorded several albums herself and her compositions have been recorded by artists including Mick McGoldrick and John McSherry, Padraig Rynne, Liadain and The London Lassies.
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She then filled in at many different infield and outfield positions with the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951 and 1953, hitting 163 with one homer and 23 RBI in 147 games.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. After baseball, Rukavina went to work at a steel company for 34 years and retired in 1991.
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He made his first recording in 1939, including one of his own compositions called Lassies of Campbell Street. MacDonald enlisted in the army in 1940, and served in Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium. He regularly played on the BBC while stationed at Abergeldie Castle in Scotland. He also met and was taught by J. Murdoch Henderson, a Scottish composer and music critic.
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Retrieved 2019-04-12. Born in Oregon, Illinois, Norene Arnold spent a season in the league with the Springfield Sallies travelling team and the Muskegon Lassies. No statistics were kept by the Sallies in 1949 and she likely played less than 10 games with the Lassies.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden.
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Since the only organized ball for women in the country was softball, the AAGPBL created a hybrid game which included both softball and baseball. Over the twelve years of history of the league, the rules were gradually modified to more closely resemble baseball. Throwing underhand, Bergmann was one of the few AAGPBL hurlers to pitch all three styles in the league's history, being able to make the transition to full sidearm in 1947 and overhand pitching in 1948.AAGPBL Rules of Play Bergmann entered the league in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies, playing for them two years before joining the Springfield Sallies (1948), Racine Belles (1949–1950) and Battle Creek Belles (1951). In her rookie season, Bergmann posted a 15–16 record and a 2.05 earned run average in 35 pitching appearances, top numbers for the sixth-place Lassies.
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Format: Paperback, 438pp. Language: English. The Roth twins joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948 with the Peoria Redwings. They played together for two years as the "dynamic duo" (″E″ and ″I″), because it worked well for promotion, but when the team folded before the 1951 season, Eilaine was relocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies and Ellaine joined the South Bend Blue Sox.
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Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. Roth spent her career as a pitcher, playing for the Peoria Redwings for two years, before joining the South Bend Blue Sox (1950) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1951–1954). A spot starter and dependable reliever, she posted a career record of 45–69 and was a member of the Champion Team during what turned out to be the league's final 1954 season.
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In the first round of the playoffs, fourth-place Kalamazoo surprised second-place South Bend in three games. Pitcher Gloria Cordes hurled and lost the opener, but Nancy Warren and Roth won games two and three, respectively. In the final series, the inspired Lassies defeated the favored Fort Wayne Daisies in five games. Roth was a key contributor in Game 2, pitching 8⅔ innings of relief.
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She then practiced with the Rockford Peaches for three years and went to school in Chicago. In the process, Armato was signed a contract and joined the Peaches in 1949, but due to an injury, she was unable to complete the season. In 1953 Armato returned to the league and was assigned to the Kalamazoo Lassies. She only had two hits in 26 at-bats for a .
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Willis Alan Ramsey (born 5 March 1951) is an American singer/songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ramsey graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969, and was a prominent baritone in the school's Lads and Lassies Choir. In his senior year, he played a leading role in the musical Carousel.
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This was originally a short speech given by a male guest in thanks to the women who had prepared the meal. However, it is now much more wide-ranging and generally covers the male speaker's view on women. It is normally amusing and not offensive, particularly since it will be followed by a reply from the "lassies" concerned. The men drink a toast to the women's health.
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Pauline Martin was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.Profile. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Official Website Born in Columbus, Ohio, Pauline Martin joined the All American League in its 1946 season and was assigned to the Muskegon Lassies club. Additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book.
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Madden, W. C. (2005) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary. According to All- American Girls Professional Baseball League data, Becker was assigned to the Kalamazoo Lassies club in its 1951 season. Nevertheless, she did not have individual records or some information was incomplete at the time of the request.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book.
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Mytrysak played for the Muskegon Lassies club in its 1949 season.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. Mytrysak was born in Homer City, Pennsylvania, one of 10 children born to Paul Mytrysak, a coal miner, and Katerina "Kata" Urban, ethnic Ukrainians born in 19th-century Poland who immigrated to the United States in 1907 and 1910, respectively.
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254 average, 106 hits and 48 runs –all career-numbers–, earning the first of her five consecutive All-Star selections. In 1951 she matched her average and runs scored numbers, while driving in 21 runs. After the Comets folded in 1951 Shollenberger moved on to play with the Lassies, to stabilize an infield that included June Peppas (1B), Nancy Mudge (2B) and Dorothy Schroeder (SS).
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The Weston-McEwen Pipes, Drums, and Military Band began as a girls' pep band and highland dancing team in the early 1950s. A girls' pep band was organized at McEwen High School in Athena. Attempting to continue the community's Scottish heritage, six girls were selected annually as a highland dancing team. Called the "Highland Lassies", they performed the Highland Fling with the school band at sports events.
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In their last at-bat, behind 4–3, the Lassies tried to rally again. Fern Shollenberger opened with a single, but Risinger retired the next two batters. Nevertheless, she lost her control temporarily and issued back-to-back walks to Schroeder and Peppas. With the bases loaded, manager English was on the verge of yanking Risinger, but he instead sent team's captain Ziegler to the pitching mound.
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She was interested in sports since her childhood. In the 1940s, she held a national Amateur Athletic Union swimming record and trained under guidance of former Olympic gold medal winner Johnny Weissmuller. She also was active in snowmobiling, waterskiing and bowling. Barringer entered the league in 1947 with the Muskegon Lassies, playing a few games at second base before becoming a chaperone for the next six years.
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LaRocque has won five provincial women's championships, five provincial mixed titles, and seven provincial seniors titles. Her first provincial title came in 1974, playing second for the Joyce Myers rink, and went 2-7 at the 1974 Macdonald Lassies Championship.. Her second title came in 1978, where she skipped the Nova Scotia rink to a 2nd place finish at the 1978 Macdonald Lassies Championship. She also won the 1979 and 1983 provincial titles as skip, and the 1986 title, playing third for Colleen Jones. LaRocque won her only national title at the 1983 Scott Tournament of Hearts. She represented Canada at the 1983 Pioneer Life World Women's Curling Championship where her rink won the bronze medal. LaRocque's five provincial mixed titles came in 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1987 playing third in each event for Lowell Goulden (1979), Steve Miller (1981), Steve Ogden (1982 & 1984) and Bill Campbell (1987).
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Barr started her baseball career in 1937 when she was just 16, after being spotted by scouts while playing catch with her sister. That sparked a five-year stint in Canada, where she pitched for the Winnipeg Ramblers (1938–1939) and Regina Army and Navy Bombers (1940–1942). She was picked up by the AAGBL when she was 21, and earned a reputation as a powerful lefty hurler with a rocket of a throw. Barr entered the league in 1943 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them three and a half years before joining the Racine Belles (1946–1947), Springfield Sallies (1948), Muskegon Lassies (1949), Peoria Redwings (1950) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1950). Her most productive season came in 1945, both for South Bend and Racine, when she posted career-numbers in wins (20), earned run average (1.71) and winning percentage (.714), while striking out 104 in 31 pitching appearances.
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Considering the year was great for many pitchers her numbers were quite respectable. Four no-hitters were recorded by Anna Mae Hutchison (Belles), Betty Luna (Blue Sox), Carolyn Morris (Peaches) and Amy Irene Applegren (Lassies), while Connie Wisniewski (Chicks) and Dorothy Wiltse (Daisies) topped the league in earned run average with 0.81 and 0.83, respectively. As a result, more than half of the circuit's players averaged under .200.
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Stu has since been involved in a number of projects and continues to record bands. Dan has also continued playing in other bands and is currently drumming for Winnipeg, MB based pop punk band, Elder Abuse. Kenny has become a professional wrestler and has toured Japan and Korea numerous times competing. In October 2016 video surface of past members playing "Lassies Last Dance" sparking rumours of a reunion.
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The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Montgomery tried again in 1946 and was assigned to the Muskegon Lassies. She played at infield positions during the season, collecting a .208 batting average in 26 games. In 1947 she left college early to attend the first AAGPBL spring training outside the United States, which was held in 1947 in Cuba at the Gran Stadium de La Habana.
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Hurrah! The men will cheer and the boys will > shout The ladies they will all turn out :And we'll all feel gay When Johnny > comes marching home. The old church bell will peal with joy :Hurrah! Hurrah! > To welcome home our darling boy, :Hurrah! Hurrah! The village lads and > lassies say With roses they will strew the way, :And we'll all feel gay When > Johnny comes marching home.
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In 1954 Winsch guided the Blue Sox to a second place (48–44), during what turned out to be the league's final season. South Bend lost in the first round of the playoffs to the eventual champion Kalamazoo Lassies, two to one games. He also managed the All-Star Team in that season. In a four-year managing career, Winsch collected a record of 232 wins and 187 losses (.
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She had originally been offered a contract at the age of 15 to play in the AAGPBL, but her father did not want her to play then. She had to wait six years before being signed in 1953. She entered the league with the Muskegon Belles, and was traded to the Kalamazoo Lassies during the midseason. She also appeared in a few games at first base and outfield.
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In 1948, she batted .220 with 67 runs and 30 RBI in a career-high 121 games, ending fourth in the league with 88 stolen bases. Fort Wayne, with Dick Bass at the helm, made the playoffs and defeated the Muskegon Lassies in the first round and Grand Rapids in the semi-finals, but was beaten by Rockford in the final series, four to one games. Eisen hit .
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Weaver also hit a league-leading .429, which remains the highest professional baseball batting average posted in the 20th century.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Rules of Play The Fort Wayne Daisies advanced to the best-of-five game Championship Series. Previously in the playoffs, the Kalamazoo Lassies dispatched the South Bend Blue Sox in three games and Fort Wayne did the same with the Grand Rapids Chicks.
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That year she played at second base for the Muskegon Lassies and the Peoria Redwings, a pair of expansion teams at the time. That was her only season in the league. In 54 career games, Overleese batted .178 (31-for-174) with four doubles and one triple, driving in 15 runs and scoring 13 times, while stealing six bases.Madden, W.C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book.
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The explosive bats of Wilma Briggs and the sisters Betty Weaver Foss and Joanne Weaver provided the difference in the league. While Briggs belted a league-lead nine home runs, Joanne led in average (.346) and Betty in runs batted in (81) and stolen bases (80), but Fort Wayne lost for the third consecutive year in the first round, now with the Kalamazoo Lassies, 2-to-1.League History.
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Holgerson entered the league in 1946 with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them through the 1949 mid-season before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1949–1950) and the Grand Rapids Chicks (1950–1952). She had a natural sidearm delivery, which the league had converted to in 1946. She posted a 2–2 record for Rockford as a rookie, while pitching 33 innings in five starts. At the plate, she hit a .
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The first AAGPBL spring training outside the United States was held in 1947 in Havana, Cuba, as part of a plan to create an International League of Girls Baseball. Sams was one of two hundred players to attend the new training camp, in a Lassies team now managed by legendary Bill Wambsganss. The team included talented players as shortstop Dorothy Stolze and pitchers Amy Applegren and Nancy Warren, between others.
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She went to Chicago, Illinois for spring training after the night of her graduation. Most of her time in the AAGPBL was spent on the two touring training teams, the Springfield Sallies and Chicago Colleens, though she did stay with the Muskegon Lassies during five weeks in 1950.The Women of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary - W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland and Company, 2005.
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Wagoner entered the league with the Lassies, playing for them only four days before joining South Bend for the rest of her career. In her rookie season, she hit a combined .278 (69-for-284) in 84 games for both teams. South Bend, with Marty McManus at the helm, ended in third place with a 57–69 record and lost to Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs, three to two games.
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She moved around for a while, as the league usually shifted players as needed to help some teams stay afloat. Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Donna was one of twelve children into the family of Sidney and Daisy (née Johnson) Cook. She played five years of organized softball before joining the league with her hometown team, just days after graduating from Muskegon Heights High School. In 1946 Cook opened at right field for the Muskegon Lassies.
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The action shifted to Grand Rapids home ballpark for Game 2, and Earlene Risinger silenced the Peaches' bats to just two hits en route to a complete game, 2–0 shutout. In Game 3, Grand Rapids starter Dorothy Mueller pitched well enough to beat Rockford, 4–3, and the Chicks advanced to the Championship Series to face the Kalamazoo Lassies, who defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies in the other first round series games.
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099 (10-for-101) and stole seven bases in just 37 games, driving in four runs while scoring ten times. Nevertheless, she was virtually flawless defensively, recording 38 putouts with three assists and turned two double plays, committing only two errors in 43 total chances for a .953 fielding average. Even so, she improved as the season wore on and Lassies manager Carson Bigbee put her in the lineup during the playoffs.
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Her other successful songs included "Take Me on the Flip-flap", "Under the Honey Moon Tree", "Ella Retford", ItsBehindYou.com. Retrieved 20 July 2020 "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", "She's a Lassie from Lancashire", and "We're All North Country Lads and Lassies". Jean Williams, A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football, Berg, 2007, p. She re-recorded several of her songs as a medley on Regal Zonophone Records in 1930.
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Language: English. In 1951 Moffett was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies and she played in 94 of the 100 games of her team. Smooth at the plate, she was just as splendid in the field, turning in seemingly effortless catches between all three outfield spots. She finished her rookie season with a .205 average (64-for-312), including 11 doubles, one triple and 23 stolen bases, driving in 23 runs while scoring 35 times.
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She hit a .129 average in 47 games, appearing mainly at third base as a backup to incumbent Catherine Horstman, which gave manager Bill Allington the chance to use Hortsman more as a pitcher. Fort Wayne clinched the title with a 66–39 record, 4½ games ahead of the Grand Rapids Chicks, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the first round series. Crites went 0-for-3 in a playoff game.
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The Colleens and Sallies played exhibition games and recruited new talent as they toured through the South and East. Highlights of these tours included contests at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. and Yankee Stadium in New York. Alderfer played for them in 1949 (Sallies) and 1950 (Coleens). She was drafted again by the Lassies after moving to Kalamazoo in 1951, but her mother took ill and she decided to stay home and care for her.
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The basic format starts with a general welcome and announcements, followed with the Selkirk Grace. After the grace comes the piping and cutting of the haggis, when Burns's famous "Address to a Haggis" is read and the haggis is cut open. The event usually allows for people to start eating just after the haggis is presented. At the end of the meal, a series of toasts, often including a 'Toast to the Lassies', and replies are made.
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In the best-of-three series, Mueller pitched a complete game and helped her team advance the final series by outlasting Rockford, 4–3. In the league's championship playoff, Grand Rapids met the third-place Kalamazoo Lassies (56-50), surprise winners in three games over the pennant-winning Fort Wayne (66-39). Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo, by scores of 5–2 and 4–3, to capture the league's title. It was the third consecutive championship title for Mueller.
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Wagoner saw limited action in 1954, but she still batting for average and went 48-for-150 to collect a .320 mark in just only 48 games, joining the All-Star team as a reserve outfielder. South Bend finished second (48–44) and advanced to the playoffs, but was beaten in the first round by the Kalamazoo Lassies, who would end the season defeating Fort Wayne to become the winning team of the last championship in the league's history.
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Norma "Trolley" Metrolis (December 5, 1925 – February 2, 2010) was a catcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between 1946 and 1950. She both batted and threw right-handed. Raised in Lake Worth, Florida, Norma started playing for the league at the age of 19. During the five years of her baseball career, she played for the Muskegon Lassies (1946), Racine Belles (1947), South Bend Blue Sox (1948, 1949), Peoria Redwings (1949) and Fort Wayne Daisies (1950).
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Retrieved 2019-03-28.1951 Kalamazoo Lassies. Retrieved 2019-03-28.1952 Battle Creek Belles. Retrieved 2019-03-28. Originally an infielder, the Belles turned her into a pitcher for a couple of games with little success, as she posted an 11.26 earned run average in eight innings of work. She was best suited for the third base job, but she hit a paltry .147 average in 47 games and Battle Creek did not offer her a contract the next season.
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In 1951 Cook was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them two and a half years before joining the South Bend Blue Sox during the 1953 midseason. Paired with her sister Donna in South Bend, for the first time in her professional career, she retired from the league following the 1953 season. Cook went 0–1 with a 5.74 earned run average in 22 games pitched and played 74 games at left field, while collecting a .
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Mudge played during five seasons in the AAGPBL, three of them with the Kalamazoo Lassies. she was a solid, smooth-fielding at second base that paced the league in fielding percentage between 1953 and 1954. A light hitter, she had the ability to get on base, by any means, way above than the pure ability to get the hit. She reached first base by walks, by a bunt single or being hit by the pitcher, though she was a .
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Language: Language: English. Winter went 22–13 with 121 strikeouts in 1947, leading her team again to the playoffs. Racine defeated the Muskegon Lassies, three games to one, but lost to the Grand Rapids Chicks in the final Series four games to three. Winter was able to make the adjustment to overhand pitching before the 1948 season, when Leo Murphy, former Pittsburgh Pirates catcher and Belles manager, helped her convert to a three-quarters delivery during spring training.
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Johnson entered the AAGPBL in 1945 with the Fort Wayne Daisies, playing for them one year before joining the Muskegon Lassies for two and a half years (1946–1948) and returning to Fort Wayne (1948). She divided her playing time between third base and shortstop, and made three trips to the playoffs. Best known for her fielding abilities, Johnson was the top fielder at third base for three consecutive years, compiling a .928 fielding average in 1946, .
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"The sound editor would cut out all that," Lockhart said, "You finally got to where you never heard the trainers. Often, if the scene had gone well, and maybe we hadn't gotten the dialogue quite right, if the dog was right, they'd print it." In addition to the main Lassie, three other Lassies might be involved in an episode shoot: a stand-in for rehearsals, a stunt double, and a "fighter" for scenes involving battles with other animals.
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1947 – The Racine Belles of the AAGPBL started the Junior Belles baseball program; 100 girls tried out and 60 were selected to play on four teams; the Grays, Greens, Reds, and Golds. 1948 – Dottie Wiltse pitched for the AAGPBL up until she was four months pregnant. 1948 – The Junior Belles became more popular, as more girls tried out for the teams; other AAGPBL teams, such as the Lassies and the Comets, began to sponsor girls’ junior baseball teams.
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In addition, the Daisies defeated the All-Star Team that season and she was the winning pitcher. At the end, Fort Wayne repeated the regular season title and won the Grand Rapids Chicks in the first round, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the best-of-five final round, three games to two. In six postseason games, Leduc batted .238 (5-for-21) and drove in four runs, but she did not pitch in any game.
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Kline lost her second decision in the series. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the championship title. She received support from Mary Taylor (5-for-5), Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run off pitcher Jones in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with an average of .
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In the best- of-three final series, Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo behind complete game victories by Mary Lou Studnicka and Earlene Risinger. In Game 1, Studnicka limited the Lassies to seven hits in a 7–2 victory, while Risinger drove in two runs and struck out nine to whip Kalamazoo, 4–3, in a cold weather, shortened seven-inning game. Smith went 3–for–10 and scored a run in the finals. In her final season of 1954, Smith batted .
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In Game 4, starter Gloria Cordes helped Kalamazoo to tie the series, pitching a complete game victory over the Daisies, 6–5. Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3–for–5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game.
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In 1917, over 250 Salvation Army volunteers went overseas to France to provide supplies and baked goods, including doughnuts, to American soldiers. The women who served donuts to the troops fried them in soldiers' helmets. They were known as "Doughnut Lassies" and are credited with popularising doughnuts in the United States. National Doughnut Day is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year, starting in Chicago of 1938, to honour those who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War l.
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In the first round of the playoffs, Grand Rapids defeated Fort Wayne in three games, and the Kenosha Comets were swept by the Muskegon Lassies. Then, in the semi- finals South Bend beat Muskegon (3-0) and Rockford did the same with Grand Rapids (3-1). The best-of-seven-series was clinched by Rockford, who eliminated South Bend in four straight games. By edict of league president Max Carey, the playoff victory also made Rockford the regular season champion.
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The All-Americans stayed at the Seville-Biltmore Hotel, and they played their games at the Gran Stadium. On the other hand, all the teams were filmed for Fox News going down the steps at the University of Havana. That season the league made the transition from underhand to full side-arm pitching.1947 Muskegon Lassies SABR Project – June Peppas biography by Jim Sargent Sams exploded in her sophomore season, to become one of the leading all-around players in the circuit.
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In addition, she possessed a near perfect eye for the strike zone and seldom struck out, as evidenced by her .305 career on-base percentage and her 1.54 walk-to-strikeout ratio (149-to-97).All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book Born in Columbus, Ohio, Reeser was a latecomer and did not start playing until age 16 in a Columbus industrial softball league. Reeser was 21 years old and married when she entered the league in 1946 with the Muskegon Lassies.
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Mills was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but moved to Dallas, Texas as a young child. In Dallas, she attended Hyer Elementary School, Arch H. McCulloch Middle School and Highland Park High School, graduating in 1982. In high school, she played the violin in the orchestra, sang in the Lads and Lassies Choir and as a senior was the female lead in the musical The Boyfriend.She started private voice lessons with Barbara Moore at SMU when she was 16 years old.
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A natural center fielder, she possessed a strong and accurate throwing arm.Heaphy, Leslie A. & Mel Anthony May. Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, McFarland & Company, 2006; Lenard entered the league in 1944 with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them two years before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1946-'49), Peoria Redwings (1949), Kenosha Comets (1950-'51) and South Bend Blue Sox (1952-'53). In her rookie season, she hit a .211 average and stole 68 bases, while leading the circuit with 10 triples.
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Silver City had its start in the year 1879 by the building of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway through that territory. 1911 Jail In its busiest time, Silver City was home to a lumber yard, grocery store, horse racing track, jewelry store, pharmacy and other businesses. An annual carnival would visit as well. Silver City is currently home to the Loyal Lassies/Ingraham Straight Shooters 4-H club as well as the Silver City Library and historical society.
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As in the previous season, Faut was the winning pitcher in the decisive Game 5, hitting two triples and driving in two runs while turning in a 6–3 complete game performance. She was 2–1 with a 5.40 ERA in the playoffs, allowing over a hit per inning. It was the second league championship for South Bend and the second time Faut pitched the deciding game. In 1953, the Battle Creek team became the Muskegon Lassies, and by the end of the season, it too, folded.
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In 1954 she joined the Kalamazoo Lassies, a team who finished in fourth place and surprised first-place Fort Wayne Daisies in the championship series. In decisive Game 5, Taylor had a perfect 5-for-5 game with two doubles, delivering good support to pitcher June Peppas and Kalamazoo that led to an 8–5 victory against the Daisies, during what turned out to be the AAGPBL's last-ever game.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000.
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She had a .156 average in 78 games. The next year she was switched to pitcher and became a proven starter, turning in a 14–8 record with a sparkling 1.42 earned run average, as the Lassies posted a 69‑43 record en route to win the regular season championship in a close pennant race. Muskegon, managed by Bill Wambsganss, nailed down the victory with two days remaining on the schedule, though the team was eliminated in the playoffs by a strong Racine Belles squad.
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The club has grown impressively since launch and now boasts more than 500 members (of whom almost 300 are playing members). In addition to rugby, the club is represented by the Stags (football), Nessies, Thistles, Pipers, Whiskies, Highlanders, Unicorns (netball) and Lassies (lacrosse). The club has also developed partnerships with local charities including The Hub and Changing Young Lives Foundation. Regular events give players and coaches the opportunity to teach local children from Shek Kip Mei and Sham Shui Po districts about rugby and a healthy lifestyle.
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Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth. Peppas finished with a .
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Her most productive season came in 1951, when she posted career-highs in average (.275), runs scored (57) and runs batted in (44). After that she helped the Daisies to win pennants in 1953 and 1954, but the team lost the final series in both years to the Grand Rapids Chicks and Kalamazoo Lassies, respectively. She was named to the All-Star Team in 1952, and shared catching duties with Pepper Paire in 1954, during what turned out to be the All- American League's final season.
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Peppas went 1-for-4 to spark a seventh inning three-run rally, but Fort Wayne came back in the bottom of the inning with two runs that marked the difference. Cordes relieved with the bases loaded in the seventh inning but did not allow any damage for the remainder of the game. In other close scores, the Lassies evened the Series in Game 4 with a victory over the Daisies, 6–5. Cordes started again with her team against the wall, 2-to-1.
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The 1979 Macdonald Lassies Championship, the Canadian women's curling championship was held February 25-March 2, 1979, at the Town of Mount Royal Arena in Mount Royal, Quebec. The 1979 event was the last women's championship to be sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco and it was also the first event to feature a playoff. The winning Lindsay Sparkes rink from British Columbia would go on to represent Canada at the first ever Women's World Curling Championship, the 1979 Royal Bank of Scotland World Women's Curling Championship.
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Scalena won four provincial women's titles in her career: 1978, 1979, 1984 and 1989. In 1978, she played third for her twinMontreal Gazette, 2 Mar 1987, pg C2, "Manitoba curlers stay unbeaten" sister Cathy's rink, and the team won the national championship. In 1979, she skipped Manitoba at the 1979 Macdonald Lassies Championship, where she lost in the final to British Columbia's Lindsay Sparkes. In 1984, Scalena returned to the national championship playing third for Connie Laliberte at the 1984 Scott Tournament of Hearts.
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In other game, Baker pitched into the eleventh inning and then hit an RBI-single in the bottom of the inning to win the game. At the end of the season the Belles folded, and Baker was sent to the South Bend Blue Sox. South Bend finished in second place (48–44) in 1954, during what turned out to be the league's final season. The Blue Sox lost in the first round of the playoffs to the eventual champion Kalamazoo Lassies, two to one games.
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A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, Hasham spent seven years in the AAGPBL, pitching in 179 games while collecting a 3.15 career earned run average. She never once played for a pennant-winning team, which is one reason for her losing record of 58–88. Eventually, she played at outfield and was used in pinch-hitting duties to take advantage of her sturdy bat. Hasham debuted in 1948, but did not win a game while dividing her playing time between the Muskegon Lassies and the Peoria Redwings.
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223 in 1948, while matching her career 110 games played, and finished second in fielding average (.986), slightly exceeded by Grand Rapids' Inez Voyce (.989). Out in 1949, she returned with her team when it became the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1950, playing briefly for them in just ten games. Sara Reeser, along with her former teammates and opponents, received their long overdue recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display to the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1988.
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In 1949, Kenosha finished fourth (58–55) in the eight-team league, but lost to the Muskegon Lassies in two games during the first round of post-season action. Their most productive season came in 1950, when they finished second with a 64-46 record, three games behind Racine, only to lose for the fifth straight appearance in the first round, this time to the Rockford Peaches in four games. In 1951, Kenosha ended sixth (36-71) in the eight-team league, out of contention. The team folded at the end of the season.
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Some of the Roller Derby Girls at the 2007 Calgary Tattoo & Arts Festival Former CRDA logo Calgary Roller Derby was originally formed as the Sandstone City Roller Girls in 2006, and restructured as the Calgary Roller Derby Association the following year. The league is skater-owned and skater-operated and is a non-profit organization. Currently, there are three home teams within the league: The Cut-Throat Car Hops, the Thrashin' Lassies, the B-52 Bellas. There are two travel teams: the Jane Deere (B team) and the All Stars (WFTDA charter travel team).
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Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, and Chris Ballingall belted a grand slam. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18-7 record with 3.23 ERA for the Daisies during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. The Daisies bounced back in Game 2, hitting five home runs against the Lassies to win, 11–4.
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Language: English. Bittner entered the league in 1947 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them one year before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1948), Grand Rapids Chicks (1949–52) and Fort Wayne Daisies (1952–53). Bittner posted a 9–9 record with a 2.55 earned run average as a 22-year-old rookie. Although she led the league in wild pitches (13) in 1949 and the following year issued the most balks (five), Bittner emerged in 1951 with Grand Rapids posting a 15–8 mark and a 2.95 ERA.
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Blailer was part of a rare occurrence in her rookie season while playing a game against the Muskegon Lassies. With runners at second and third bases and none outs, she caught a line drive ball and threw to second sacker Mary Baker, who nailed the base runner. Baker then whipped the ball to Blailer, who tagged the runner before she could return to third to complete a 5-4-5 triple play.Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Softcover, 438pp.
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The 1974 Canadian Ladies Curling Championship, known as the Macdonald Lassie for sponsorship reasons, Canada's national women's curling championship was held February 24-28, 1974 at the Victoria Memorial Arena in Victoria, British Columbia.Victoria Victorian, 30 Jan 1974, pg 66. "Lots of lassies to sweep into Victoria for the 'Lassie'" The Emily Farnham rink, representing Saskatchewan won the event, the sixth straight title for that province. Saskatchewan went undefeated through the tournament, and clinched the title after the eighth draw, as no other team could catch up to them.
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The final tryouts were held at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Schroeder entered the league in 1943 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them two and a half years before joining the Kenosha Comets (1945-'47), Fort Wayne Daisies (1947-'52) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1953-'54). In her first season, she led the league shortstops in fielding average, collected 32 stolen bases and hit a respectable .211 of batting average, considering that the league used an underhand pitch in what could only be called classic dead-ball-era fashion.
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An AAGPBL scout signed Shollenberger after seeing her play in an amateur softball league in Hamburg. She entered the league in 1946 with the Kenosha Comets, playing for them five years before joining the Kalamazoo Lassies (1952-'54). While the Comets were invariability low in the standings, their fielding was always among the best in the league, and Shollenberger was one of the key reasons. In her rookie season, she posted a .225 batting average with 35 runs, 24 runs batted in, and 35 stolen bases in 94 games.
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Both teams had a lousy year and lost their franchises by the end of the season. For the next two years, the Colleens and Sallies became rookie training teams that played exhibition games and recruited new talent as they toured through the South and East. When the teams stopped for an exhibition game at Yankee Stadium in 1949, Cordes tried out for the league and was invited to another tryout in South Bend, Indiana the following year. She attended the invitation and was assigned to the Muskegon Lassies.
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After pitching in the two cities, she joined the Racine Belles late in the season. She combined for a 5-10 record with a 3.63 earned run average, giving up 76 walks while striking out just 23 in 119 innings of work. Cordes stayed with the Belles when the team moved from Racine, Wisconsin to Battle Creek, Michigan for the 1951 season, but was sent back to the Lassies during the midseason. She finished 1951 with a solid 3.63 ERA, despite her 3-15 record for two helpless teams.
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Between 1949 and 1951, Anna played professional baseball for five teams: the Kenosha Comets (in 1949), the Chicago Colleens (also in 1949), the Kalamazoo Lassies and the Racine Belles (in 1950), and a year later, in 1951, for the Battle Creek Belles. According to fellow player Lois Balchunas (Bellman), "Anna Mae O'Dowd was a catcher and was she good." What was great for Anna about her professional baseball career—apart from participating in the game—was the travel. She had never left the Chicago area and was delighted to be able to travel so much.
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Attempting to resolve the matter the next game in Fort Wayne, Chicks manager English and Daisies pilot Allington ended up fighting at home plate. After tempers calmed, the entire Fort Wayne team voted not to play, so the Chicks forfeited, allowing Fort Wayne to advance to the championship round. In the end, the Kalamazoo Lassies won the last AAGPBL Championship Series by defeating the Daisies three to two games.1954 AAGPBL All Star Team First in Milwaukee, and later in Grand Rapids, the Chicks made the playoffs every year of their existence.
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During the off-season she worked for Diehl Manufacturing Company in New Jersey because her playing salary was not enough to live on year-round.Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball In 1949, Walulik was allocated to the Chicago Colleens rookie training team to acquire more experience and better professional quality.1949 Chicago Colleens Then, she joined the Kalamazoo Lassies midway through the 1950 season, her last in the league.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Following her baseball career, Walulik played basketball for the New York Covergirls in the 1950s.
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In the other series, Kalamazoo lost Game 1 to South Bend before rebouding and taking the next two games. In the finals, the Lassies defeated the Daisies two to one games. First base-pitcher June Peppas starred for Kalamazoo, winning her two starts while hitting 6-for-15 with two home runs and three RBI, during what turned out to be the AAGPBL final season.SABR Biography Project – June Peppas biography by Jim Sargent Risinger posted a 73-80 record with 581 strikeouts and a 2.51 ERA in 187 career games.
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Baker had a 5–11 mark with a 4.81 ERA during the regular season, and was sent to Fort Wayne for the championship playoffs. She pitched two shutout-innings of relief in Game 3 and was credited with the win in an 8–7 victory over the Kalamazoo Lassies. Overall, she made three relief appearances and went 1–0 with a 0.82 ERA in 11 innings of work.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League After the league folded, Baker returned to high school and graduated in 1955.
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Mary Lou Studnicka earned the victory, while Eleanor Moore was credited with a save. In the next game, Ricketts smashed a go-ahead, two-RBI double in the sixth inning, to give the Chicks a 4–3 lead for the rest of the game. Late in the inning, she used her strong arm from right field to throw out the potential tying run at home plate. Pitcher Earlene Risinger went the distance and stroke out nine Lassies players, including a bases loaded strikeout to retire slugger Doris Sams for the last out of the game.
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She limited them to one hit in the opener but lost the game. Then she had better luck in the second game and was credited with the victory.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League In addition, she finished 11th in innings pitched and tied for 10th for the most strikeouts with Muskegon Lassies' Doris Sams.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book Before the 1949 season, Goldsmith enjoyed a memorable experience during an AAGPBL tour of Central America, as the teams were feted by both government officials and the common people.
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Wegman moved around for a while over a period of four years, as the AAGPBL shifted players as needed to help teams stay afloat. She started the 1947 season with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them one year before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1948) and then found herself on the move again, this time to the Muskegon Lassies (1949), and then the Grand Rapids Chicks (1950). During her first season with the Peaches, Wegman got homesick, although she loved baseball. ″Blackie″, as she was called, played primarily at third base and second base.
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Then she was sent to the Kalamazoo Lassies during the midseason and finished the year with the Battle Creek Belles. Through her lengthy and arduous journey, Jannsen posted a career-best 26 games pitched, only six behind Belles teammate Migdalia Pérez, while also setting career-highs in ERA (2.67), innings pitched (145) and strikeouts (43). She had a very good season overall, although this was not reflected in her 6–10 losing record. Jannsen spent the entire 1952 season with Battle Creek and was used in relief duties, a seldom used role in the league.
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Youngen entered the AAGPBL in 1951 with the Kenosha Comets, playing for them one year before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952. Then she opened 1953 with the South Bend Blue Sox, returned to Fort Wayne for the first half of the 1954 season and rejoined South Bend during the midseason. While catching for South Bend, Youngen caught a perfect game pitched by Jean Faut against the Kalamazoo Lassies on September 3, 1953. Her best season at the plate came in 1954, when she hit a combined average of .
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In 1948, Peppas attended to spring training at Opa-locka, Florida and was assigned to the Fort Wayne Daisies, playing for them one and a half year before joining the Racine Belles (1949–50), Battle Creek Belles (1951) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1951–54). She spent most of her time at first base and pitching, eventually appearing at outfield. According to the new league's regulations, Peppas had to make the transition from underhand to overhand pitching. Her unfamiliarity with the style and the ball size caused her negative results.
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The 1952 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season marked the tenth season of the circuit. The teams Battle Creek Belles, Fort Wayne Daisies, Grand Rapids Chicks, Kalamazoo Lassies, Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox competed through a 110-game schedule, while the Shaugnessy playoffs featured the top four teams from each half of the regular season.All- American Girls Professional Baseball League teams by season In 1952 the league was left with six teams, as Kenosha and Peoria folded at the end of the previous season. No changes were made to the game, but attendance continued to decline.
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The 1975 Canadian Ladies Curling Championship, known as the Macdonald Lassie for sponsorship reasons, Canada's national women's curling championship was held February 23-28, 1975 at the Moncton Coliseum in Moncton, New Brunswick.Red Deer Advocate, 28 Feb 1975, pg6, "Last rock hit by Mitchell forces Lassies' playoff" Lee Tobin's Montreal-area rink won Quebec's first (and to date only) Canadian women's championship title, after defeating Saskatchewan's Marj Mitchell in a playoff after finishing the round robin with identical records. It was only the second time a team from Eastern Canada had won up to that point.
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The 1953 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season marked the eleventh season of the circuit. The teams Fort Wayne Daisies, Grand Rapids Chicks, Kalamazoo Lassies, Muskegon Belles, Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox competed through a 110-game schedule, while the Shaugnessy playoffs featured the top four teams. This time, the postseason was reduced to a best- of-three series for both rounds.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams by season The AAGPBL had six teams in 1953, the only change in its lineup being that the Battle Creek Belles had transferred and become the Muskegon Belles.
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Moore started her career in 1950 with the Chicago Colleens, a touring player development team, since she was only 17 years old and need more skill development. She improved vastly and was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951, playing for them part of that season before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1951–1952) and the Grand Rapids Chicks (1952–1954). But not only Moore was a solid pitcher, she also often helped her own cause with the bat. In her rookie year, she hit two home runs in a game against the Springfield Sallies, but the Colleens lost 14–3.
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She was born in Regina, Saskatchewan to Emillien and Edith (Evans) Berthiaume, and married her childhood sweetheart, Bill Wicken, after he left the navy at the end of World War II. She entered the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1945 with the Grand Rapids Chicks, playing for them one and a half year before joining the Muskegon Lassies in the 1946 midseason. A good defensive outfielder with a strong throwing arm, she batted a .182 batting average in 117 games and reached the playoffs with Grand Rapids in 1945. In four postseason games, she went 4-for-15 for a .
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Despite moving to television news in March 2008, Pang maintains a presence on RTHK Radio 2. She continued to co-host Cantonese Top 20 Pop Chart until July 2009, filled-in for her Morning Suite replacement on 1 October 2008, and made numerous guest-hosting appearances on other RTHK radio programmes. In October 2009, Pang began a new Sunday afternoon radio programme Lassies and Nerds (中女宅男殺很大) with co-host Tsang Chi Ho (曾志豪), which examines the social needs of those who are single and over the age of 30 in Hong Kong.
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As a result, the Lassies defeated the Daisies in a best-of-five games series, with a decisive eight- inning RBI double by Schroeder in Game 5, during what turned out to be the AAGPBL final season. In addition to playing 16 professional baseball seasons, Schroeder holds all-time records for most games played (1,249), at-bats (4,129), RBI (431) and walks (696) in AAGPBL history. She also ranks second in hits (870) and third in home runs (42). Defensively, she was impenetrable, leading three times the AAGPBL shortstops in fielding, collecting 2,579 outs and 3,376 assists for a .
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A RBI single by Joyce Ricketts extended the lead to 5–2. When the Lassies first two batters reached base in the final inning, manager English promptly brought in reliever Eleanor Moore, who retired the next three batters in order. She struck out Isabel Alvarez for the first out, retired Dorothy Schroeder with a pop fly to shortstop Ziegler, and beat June Peppas with a sharp grounder to second basewoman Dolores Moore who threw to Voyce at first base for the final out of the game. Studnicka was the winning pitcher and Cordes the loser, while Moore earned the save.
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Romatowski moved around for a while, as the AAGPBL shifted players as needed to help new teams stay afloat. She entered the league in 1946 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them one year before joining the Rockford Peaches (1947). She then found herself on the move again, this time to the Chicago Colleens (1948), Racine Belles (1948), Peoria Redwings (1949) and South Bend Blue Sox (1950), before settling down with the Kalamazoo Lassies for the rest of her career (1951–1954). She was used sparingly at third base and outfield before converting to catcher.
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She divided her playing time at first base and outfield, and was a member of the Milwaukee team that won the pennant that year. But she moved around for a while, as the AAGPBL shifted players as needed to help teams stay afloat.1944 Minneapolis Millerettes. Retrieved 2019-03-27. In 1945 Blumetta played for the Grand Rapids Chicks and then found herself on the move again, this time to the Peoria Redwings (1946–1947), and then the Fort Wayne Daisies (1947–1950), before landing with the Kalamazoo Lassies for the rest of her career (1951–1954).
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Cordes started again with her team against the wall, 2-to-1. This time properly warmed up, she hurled a complete game, allowing five runs on nine hits. Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series. Peppas contributed with a single, a double and one RBI in four at-bats. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game.
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A native of Alameda, California, Stolze has been considered by many baseball historians as one of the most versatile utility players in AAGPBL history. Basically a middle infielder, she is reported to have played every position with the exception of pitcher at one time or another of her career. Stolze was discovered by former big leaguer Max Carey, while she was playing in a fastpitch softball league in Alameda. She entered the league in 1946 with the Muskegon Lassies, playing for them until the 1949 midseason before joining the Racine Belles (1949), Peoria Redwings (1950–1951) and Grand Rapids Chicks (1952).
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She started as the Lassies shortstop as soon as she arrived, and distinguished herself in her debut by hitting a triple. She hit .194 in 81 games with a career-high 34 runs batted in and also made a flashy unassisted double play in her rookie season. Hampered by an elbow injury incurred in a car accident, Stolze started having trouble making the long throws from shortstop, and was moved to second base in 1947. Her most productive season came in 1948, when she posted career-numbers in games played (121), hits (113), runs (62) and stolen bases (67), while hitting a .
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Her older sisters did not want her, and tried to keep her away three times tying her to a rock, a peat stack, and tree, but her mother's blessing let her follow them, so they went on together. They came to a house and begged to be let in; the woman warned them that her husband was a giant and would eat them. They promised to leave before he came, but no sooner had she given them something to eat than he arrived. She told him that they were three little lassies and he was not to hurt them.
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The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League In 1950, Havlish and her father saw an article in Parade Magazine about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and decided that she should try out. Havlish had the opportunity to do a little infield practice with the Racine Belles and received an invitation to a full- scale audition the next year. She was allocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951 but never heard from them. Eventually, she wound up with the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952 in a shortstop swap that sent Dottie Schroeder to Kalamazoo.
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She then shut down the Peaches in the bottom of the inning for a victory with her parents in attendance. In 1947 the AAGPBL moved its spring training camp to Havana, Cuba, and Bergmann was one of the two hundred girls who made the trip. That season she was used strictly as a pitcher. She ended the season with an 11–10 mark and a solid 1.74 ERA in 27 games, helping the Lassies win the pennant. In addition, she tossed a no-hitter against the host Grand Rapids Chicks on May 22 of that year.
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In 1949, Holgerson divided her playing time between Racine and Muskegon, as the league shifted players as needed to help new teams stay afloat. She recorded a solid 1.70 ERA with both clubs, though she ended with a 5–10 mark because of lack of run support from the Lassies. Holgerson opened 1950 with Muskegon and was traded to Grand Rapids during the mid-season. She posted a combined 14–12 record and a 2.00 ERA in 33 games, while striking out 101 batters in 230 innings, ranking sixth both in ERA and strikeouts (101) and seventh in innings pitched (230).
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Catherine "Cathy" Shaw (née Pidzarko; born c. 1953) is a Canadian curler, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. While attending Miles Macdonell Collegiate, Shaw and her twin sister, Chris won three straight provincial junior championships (1972–1974) and won two Canadian Junior Curling Championships (1972 & 1974). Shaw played third on the team that was skipped by her sister. In 1978, Shaw skipped a team which included her sister at third, Iris Armstrong at second and Patti Vande at lead which won the Manitoba Lassie provincial championship and then won the 1978 Macdonald Lassies Championship, the national women's curling championship at the time.
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Language: English. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Rules of Play Luna entered the league in 1944 with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them one year before joining the South Bend Blue Sox (1945–1946). She returned to Rockford (1947) and then found herself on the move again, this time to the Chicago Colleens (1948), Fort Wayne Daisies (1949–1950) and Kalamazoo Lassies (1950). In her rookie season, Luna posted a 12–13 record and a 2.61 earned run average as part of a Peaches rotation that included Carolyn Morris (23-18, 2.15) and Mary Pratt (21-15, 2.61).
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After his last year in the Major Leagues, Wambsganss played for Triple-A Kansas City of the American Association. After coaching New Orleans of the Southern League in 1930, he returned to the Kansas City club as manager in 1931. Additionally, he managed for four seasons in the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) for the Fort Wayne Daisies (1945–46) and the Muskegon Lassies (1947–48). In November 1988, Wambsganss and the rest of the AAGPBL received recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York dedicated a permanent display to the entire league.
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At age 19, Sams entered the AAGPBL in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies. She had an auspicious debut, hitting a .276 batting average with 15 runs scored and nine runs driven home in 42 games. As an underhand pitcher, she posted an 8–9 record with a 3.78 earned run average in 25 pitching appearances, while her average was seventh best in the league for players with 100 or more at-bat (she went 29-for-106). Muskegon, with Buzz Boyle at the helm, placed sixth in the eight-team league with a 46–66 record.
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Her dreams came true when she was discovered by an AAGPBL scout who invited her to a tryout camp at Wrigley Field in Chicago. She passed the test and was rewarded with a contract to play in the league. Wawryshyn moved around for a while in a brief period of six years, as the AAGPBL shifted players as needed to help teams stay afloat. She entered the league in 1946 with the Kenosha Comets, playing for them part of the season before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1946–47), Springfield Sallies (1948) and Fort Wayne Daisies (1949–51).
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At the time, the Brooklyn Dodgers trained in Havana because Jackie Robinson, who would be the first Afro-American to play in the Major Leagues, was training with the Dodgers for the first time. City ordinances in Vero Beach, Florida, where the Dodgers normally trained, prevented blacks and whites from competing on the same field against each other. Notably, newspaper stories from Havana indicate that the All-American girls drew larger crowds for their exhibition games in Havana than did the Dodgers. Wawryshyn saw little action with the Lassies that year, but still to increase her average to .
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The 1954 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season marked the twelfth and last season of the circuit. The AAGPBL was left with five teams after the Muskegon Belles franchise folded at the end of the past season. As a result, it was the lowest number of teams since its opening season in 1943. The Fort Wayne Daisies, Grand Rapids Chicks, Kalamazoo Lassies, Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox competed through a 96-game schedule, while the Shaugnessy playoffs featured the top four teams in a best-of-three first round series, with the two winning teams facing in a best-of-five series to decide the championship.
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The league added two more teams in 1946, the Muskegon Lassies and the Peoria Redwings. During spring training in the AAGPBL's early years the players were selectively allocated to teams for the purpose of maintaining a competitive balance. Faut was rewarded with a contract to play in the eight-team league and was assigned to the established South Bend Blue Sox, by then managed by Chet Grant, a former Notre Dame football player and the sports editor for the South Bend Tribune. In 1946 the AAGPBL made significant changes in its rules, extending the length of the base paths and pitching distance and decreasing the size of the ball.
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James P. "Daddy" Summerville, Charter President of the Kansas City, Missouri Club, was elected the second International President. The Co-Operettes had its beginning in 1923 when the wives of the Members of the Co-Operative Club of Manhattan, Kansas, organized the first auxiliary, called the "Co-Op Lassies". In 1928, the Co-Operettes became a national organization. Radio was used to promote the activities of the early Sertoma Club when Radio Station WHB in Kansas City – at that time one of the very few official government licensed broadcasting stations – offered the Club air time (the owner of Kansas City Station WHB, E.J. Sweeney, was a local member).
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She hurled a no-hitter for the Sallies during the exhibition tour, and joined the league as soon as graduated in 1950.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League As a 16-year-old, Kidd opened 1950 with the Muskegon Lassies. She was traded to the Peoria Redwings in the midseason and ended the year with South Bend, but not with much success, as her record was 1–10 despite a 2.94 ERA in 141 innings. In 1951, the Blue Sox hired a new manager, Karl Winsch, a former pitching prospect of the Philadelphia Phillies and husband of Jean Faut, the team’s ace pitcher.
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Included in these photos were practice and game action shots, informal group shots with images of excursions from other team members, gatherings at the homes of players engaged in informal recreational activities such as swimming and boating, shots from the trip to Havana, player portraits and more. As well as photographic material, there are: 3 autographed balls, Norma's uniform patch from her time with the Blue Sox, a letter from league officials with a South Bend Blue Sox contract, league-related periodicals, newsletters, team schedules, and a Muskegon Lassies business card. Norma Metrolis died at her home in Melbourne Beach, Florida, aged 84.Obituary, Florida Today; retrieved December 26, 2015.
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Pang's first book is Yi Zhong Ai Qi Duan Qing (一種愛 七段情', literally translated as 'One Kind of Love but Seven Situations'), a collection of gay and lesbian love stories. It was released on 18 July 2007 at the Hong Kong Book Fair. A second paperback titled 中女挑宅男 is a collection of short stories recounted from her popular RTHK radio programme Lassies and Nerds, published at the end of 2010. In July 2011, Pang released another Chinese book titled 中女解毒 (or Women in Detoxification) in parallel with a stage play of the same name, in which Pang starred.
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1954 Kalamazoo Lassies Champion Team Back, L-R: Barbara Liebrich (chaperone), Nancy Warren (P), Carol Habben (OF/C), Mary Taylor (OF), Dorothy Schroeder (SS), Kay Blumetta (P/1B), Gloria Cordes (P), Chris Ballingall (C), Jean Marlowe (P/OF), Jane Stoll (OF), Mitch Skupien (manager). Middle, L-R: Jenny Romatowski (C/3B), June Peppas (P/1B), Elaine Roth (P/OF), Nancy Mudge (2B), Fern Shollenberger (3B), Jean Lovell (C/P). Front: Judy [?] (bat girl). In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, Kalamazoo defeated Fort Wayne 17-9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run.
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During the season, the Belles again showed a great defense, notably by Danhauser at first, Kurys at second, English at third and Trezza at shortstop, while Irene Hickson caught and Perlick (LF), Schillace (CF) and Dapkus (RF) patrolled the outfield. And moreover, fielding ability and speed on the bases were immensely more crucial and challenging in a dominant pitching league. In 1947 Racine defeated the Muskegon Lassies in the playoffs, three games to one, but lost to the Grand Rapids Chicks in the final Series four games to three. In the 1948 season the team lost the semifinal playoff to the Rockford Peaches, the eventually Championship Team.
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Bessy Bell and Mary Gray are "twa bonnie lassies", the subject of one of the Child Ballads. According to the ballad, Bessy and Mary were daughters of two Perthshire gentlemen, who in 1666 built themselves a bower to avoid catching a devastating plague. The girls were supplied with food by a lad in love with both of them; the lad caught the plague and gave it to them, and all three sickened and died. Two similar hills near Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) were named after Bessy Bell and Mary Gray by Scottish immigrants who went to Ireland to make their passage to America.
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A RBI single by Joyce Ricketts extended the lead to 5–2. When the Lassies first two batters reached base in the final inning, manager English promptly brought in reliever Eleanor Moore, who retired the next three batters in order. She struck out Isabel Alvarez for the first out, retired Dorothy Schroeder with a pop fly to shortstop Ziegler, and beat June Peppas with a sharp grounder to second bagger Dolores Moore who threw to Voyce at first base for the final out of the game. In Kalamazoo, with cold weather around 40 degrees and windy, both teams’ managers agreed to play the Game 2 in just seven innings.
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In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, while Chris Ballingall added a grand slam. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause and Joanne Weaver slugged one. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with a 3.23 ERA during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss.
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The Daisies evened the Series against the Lassies winning Game 2, 11–4, after hitting five home runs off two pitchers. Gloria Cordes started for Kalamazoo, but due to a mix-up over the game's starting time the umpires did not allow her to warm up (supposedly there would be a half hour delay). Starting cold, Cordes allowed five runs before getting a batter out. After a leadoff walk, Horstman belted a home run for a 2–0 Fort Wayne lead. Then Ruth Richard and Joanne Weaver hit back-to-back singles, and Betty Weaver Foss hit a three-run homer for a 5–0 edge.
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A 1919 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Women's Land Army of America, with drawings by Marguerite Martyn and a photo of Mrs. William H. Hubert, official of the organization The Woman's Land Army of America (WLAA) operated from 1917 to 1919, organized in 42 states, and employing more than 20,000 women. It was inspired by the women of Great Britain who had organized as the Women's Land Army, also known as the Land Girls or Land Lassies. The women of the WLAA were known as 'farmerettes', a term derived from suffragettes and originally used pejoratively, but ultimately becoming positively associated with patriotism and women's war efforts.
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In his earlier years with MGM, Rudd Weatherwax was assisted by Frank Inn,Collins, p. 29The Weatherwax website states, "However, Rudd exclusively owned and trained the first seven generations of Collies who portrayed Lassie (and bred the first six issuing from "Pal"). At Rudd's death, Bob Weatherwax inherited the Lassie dogs, completed the training of Lassie VII, and continued carrying on his father's famous legacy and line of collies." who, for fourteen years, trained Lassies and later supplied animals for the 1954 Lassie television series. Following The Painted Hills in 1951, MGM executives felt Lassie had run her course and planned no future films featuring the character.
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1949 Rockford Peaches1950 Fort Wayne Daisies 1950 Kalamazoo Lassies She finished with a 74–70 record in 162 pitching appearances and 1–1 with a 2.00 ERA in two postseason games, while her 2.12 career ERA ranks for 10th place in the all-time list. In 1988, she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History Luna was a long time resident of Los Angeles, where she died at the age of 77.
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She then worked for State Farm Insurance company in Marshall, from where she retired in 1978. Baker also played guard on the Kalamazoo Lassies basketball teams for four years, coached women's teams in Rice Creek league play, and work for a short time in Battle Creek. A cancer survivor, she continued to play fast pitch softball with a Kalamazoo team and various Marshall area teams util she was 48, usually pitching, but sometimes playing at first base or third base. In 1961, she married Clifton Wise, a softball coach and former baseball player, and helped him coach Marshall High School Girl Redskin Softball teams for 13 years.
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Captain Ernest Edmund "Ted" Fresson had great experience of flying in Scotland, gained by doing several years of pleasure flights for the public, flying from any available fields near populated areas and drawing large crowds. Fresson saw that air services would dramatically reduce the time it took to travel by ship from the mainland to the Northern Isles and to travel between them, and also avoid the often rough conditions at sea. They would appeal to a very wide range of customers, from businessmen and the military to tourists, crofters and ”fisher lassies”. The public demand encouraged him to form Highland Airways in April 1933, and he became managing director.
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Because she taught school, Kruckel was unable to attend spring training and was used exclusively as a fourth outfielder during her first two seasons. Then, in 1948 she returned to the Blue Sox. They tried her as a pitcher because she showed a good command of the curveball and a strong off-speed pitch. She was traded to the Muskegon Lassies midway through the season, staying with them for one more year. Her most productive season came in 1948, when she posted a combined 9–4 record and a 1.65 earned run average in 19 games pitched, ending sixth in the league with a .
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"Lippy", as her teammates nicknamed her, started her career as a solid relief pitcher before becoming a starter. In her rookie season, she pitched 10 games and went 0–4 with a 3.93 earned run average in 39 innings of work. She improved to a 2–2 record and a 2.88 ERA in 1953, appearing in 14 games while pitching 50 innings. Fort Wayne, with Bill Allington at the helm, won easily the league's title, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the first round playoffs. She posted a 3.00 ERA in two playoff appearances, working two innings, but did not have a decision.
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Chorus A Gordon for me, a Gordon for me. If you’re not a Gordon you’re no use to me, The Eastwoods are braw, the Randwicks an a’ But the cocky wee Gordon's the pride of them all. 2nd Verse I courted that girl on the Banks of the Dee. And made up my mind she was fashioned for me, And soon I was thinking how nice it would be If she would consent to get married to me. The day we were wed the grass was so green, The sun was as bright as the light in her een, Now we’ve two bonnie lassies who sit on her knee.
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The team played their home games at Marsh Field. The Lassies posted a 46-66 record in their first year, and placed sixth in the eight-team league. They improved to 69-43 in 1947, to win a close pennant race with the Grand Rapids Chicks. Muskegon was led by OF/P Doris Sams, who ranked in several offensive categories and also collected 11 victories, including a perfect game, good enough to win the Most Valuable Player Award. Notably, the team counted with three of the top four pitchers in earned run average, Sams (0.98), Amy Irene Applegren (1.06) and Nancy Warren (1.13), but lost to the Racine Belles in the best-of-five, first-round matchup 3-1.
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In Game 1 of the best-of-five series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2–for–4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, and Chris Ballingall belted a grand slam. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with 3.23 ERA for the Daisies during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one.
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The explosive bats of Wilma Briggs and the sisters Betty Weaver Foss and Joanne Weaver provided the difference in the league. Briggs belted a league-lead nine homers, while Joanne led in average (.346) and Betty in RBI (81) and stolen bases (80), but Fort Wayne lost for the third consecutive year in the first round, now with the Kalamazoo Lassies, 2-to-1. In the All-Star Game, played on July 14 at Memorial Park, the Daisies defeated the All-Star team in an 11-inning effort behind Jean Geissinger, who belted a walk-off home run, and Horstman, whose relief pitching silenced an All-Stars potential rally in the 9th inning.
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Gloria Cordes was one of 25 players who made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League clubs hailed from New York City and State, including Muriel Bevis, Mildred Deegan, Nancy Mudge, Betty Trezza and Margaret Wigiser. Cordes pitched in the last five seasons of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, primarily with the Kalamazoo Lassies. A hard-thrower and extremely competitive, she overcame control problems early in her career to become one of the most consistent overhand pitchers of the league. She was adversely affected by frequently moving from one city to another, totaling five moves in her first two seasons before settling in Kalamazoo for the rest of her career.
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Then Ruth Richard and Joanne Weaver hit back-to-back singles, and Betty Weaver Foss hit a three-run homer for a 5-0 edge. Elaine Roth relieved Cordes and completed the game. But the Lassies hit three more home runs, one each by Jean Geissinger and the Weaver sisters. Kalamazoo discounted the margin with leadoff shots by Nancy Mudge, Peppas (playing at first base) and Dorothy Schroeder, but the game's outcome was never in doubt. In Game 3 the Daisies won a close one, 8-7, fueled by the heavy hitting of Joanne Weaver, who collected a double, a triple, and a three- run home run in five at-bats, while driving in four runs.
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As an underhand pitcher, Fisher made the adjustments, relying on a strong fastball and a breaking curve. She posted a 16–11 record, joining forces with Alice Haylett (25–5) and Mildred Earp (15–14), to give Grand Rapids three aces at a time when most teams would settle for two in their rotation. Grand Rapids, with Johnny Rawlings at the helm, won the East Division with a 77–47 mark, 10½ games ahead of the second place Muskegon Lassies (66–57). The Chicks defeated the South Bend Blue Sox in the first round of the playoffs, three to two games, but were swept in three games by the expansion Fort Wayne Daisies in the next round.
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In support of Pryer, five South Bend teammates, including Mahon and Stoll, joined her in a walkout, leaving Winsch's team short-handed for the playoffs with only twelve players. Nonetheless, South Bend beat Grand Rapids in two games and later defeated Rockford in five games, to win a second consecutive title in the league.1952 South Bend Blue SoxAAGPBL – Elizabeth Mahon biography by Jim Sargent Stoll played with the Kalamazoo Lassies for the rest of her career. Her most productive season came in 1953, when she hit a career-high .308 with 38 runs in 110 games and also posted career numbers in at-bats (396), hits (122) and RBI (65), being selected for the All-Star Team.
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National Doughnut Day started in 1938 as a fund raiser for Chicago's The Salvation Army. Their goal was to help those in need during the Great Depression, and to honor The Salvation Army "Lassies" of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers. Doughnut Dollies were women volunteers of the Salvation Army, who traveled to France in 1918 to support US soldiers Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, The Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that the needs of US enlisted men could be met by canteens/social centers termed "huts" that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service.
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Faralla entered the league in 1946 with the Peoria Redwings, playing for them one year before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1947), South Bend Blue Sox (1948–1949), Kalamazoo Lassies (1950), and coming back to South Bend (1951). She posted a career-high 19 victories in 1949, but her career milestone came in 1949, when she pitched two no-hitters in that season. She reached the playoffs with the Blue Sox in all three seasons she played for them, including the championship team in 1951.SABR Biography Project – Article by Jim Sargent "Women should have their own league (...) The game should be adapted for women players (...) Enjoying something you like to do and getting paid for it", Faralla recalled in an interview.
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Darby tells his men that the Commandos are the best soldiers in the world, but in time they (the Rangers) will be. The Americans are quartered in Scottish homes and several of the Rangers pair off with local lassies: Rollo Burns (Peter Brown) with Peggy McTavish (Venetia Stevenson), the daughter of the fearsome but humorous Scottish Commando instructor, Sergeant McTavish (Torin Thatcher), and vagabond Hank Bishop (Stuart Whitman) with the proper Wendy Hollister (Joan Elan).Glamour girl The Rangers prove their worth in Operation Torch (the invasion of French North Africa), and two more Ranger battalions are formed, with Darby promoted to colonel. Joining the Rangers is Second Lieutenant Arnold Dittmann (Edd Byrnes), a by-the-book graduate of West Point.
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In Lurgan a tunnel supposedly went from Brownlow House to the local police station, the courthouse and to the church in the middle of the town. Another tunnel was from Soyes Mill to Lurgan Castle. One explanation for the Brownlow tunnel was that Lord Brownlow had a very over protective wife, and after many years of a good marriage, things went sour, so Brownlow had this tunnel dug so he would be able to exit the castle after dark without his wife's finding out. Once out, he would go on the hunt for some Lurgan lassies, book a room at the Ashburn Hotel, then leave early in the morning to get back in time for breakfast at the castle with his wife.
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In Game 1 of the final series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben, Fern Shollenberger and Chris Ballingall, who hit a grand slam, also slugged one each. Katherine Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one. Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18-7 record with 3.23 earned run average during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Fort Wayne evened the series against Kalamazoo winning Game 2, 11–4, after hitting a series-record five home runs off two pitchers.
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With the bases loaded, Ziegler drove home one run with a sacrifice fly to put the score in favor of Grand Rapids, 3–2. Another sacrifice fly by Inez Voyce and a RBI single by Joyce Ricketts extended the lead to 5–2. When the Lassies first two batters reached base in the final inning, manager English brought Eleanor Moore to the rescue. She promptly retired the next three batters in order, striking out Isabel Alvarez, retiring Dorothy Schroeder with a pop fly to shortstop Ziegler, and inducing June Peppas on a sharp grounder to the mound throwing to Voyce at first base for the final out of the game. In Kalamazoo, with cold weather around 40 degrees and windy, both teams’ managers agreed to play the Game 2 in just seven innings.
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Then Alma Ziegler drove home one run with a sacrifice fly to put the score in favor of Grand Rapids, 3–2. Another sacrifice fly by Inez Voyce and a RBI single by Joyce Ricketts extended the lead to 5–2. When the Lassies first two batters reached base in the final inning, manager English brought Eleanor Moore to the rescue. Moore promptly retired the next three batters in order, striking out Isabel Alvarez, retiring Dorothy Schroeder with a pop fly to shortstop Ziegler, and inducing June Peppas on a sharp grounder to the mound throwing to Voyce at first base for the final out of the game. In Kalamazoo, with cold weather around 40 degrees and windy, both teams’ managers agreed to play the Game 2 in just seven innings.
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The Chicago Colleens and the Springfield Sallies traveled together over much of the eastern half of the United States playing games against each other to recruit new players. The tour gave these new recruits an opportunity to play and also gave the league the opportunity to develop new baseball talent around the country. The teams held a tryout at Shreveport and signed Payne up. She was assigned to the Springfield team and made her debut in her hometown before going on an exhausting tour of 22 states.1949 Springfield SalliesThe Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League In 1950, Payne was allowed to graduate from high school a month early so that she could be able to join the Muskegon Lassies at the spring training camp.
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The song, written in Scots, is also known as The Floo'ers o' the Forest (are a' wede away) and describes the grief of women and children at the loss of their young men. In some ways the song echoes the Old Welsh poem Y Gododdin about a similar defeat in about 600. Powerful solo bagpipe versions of the song are used at services of remembrance, funerals, and other occasions; many in the Commonwealth know the tune simply as "The Lament" which is played at Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies to commemorate war dead. The first verse of the song contrasts happier times with grief at the losses: ::I've heard the lilting, at the yowe-milking, ::Lassies a-lilting before dawn o' day; ::But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning; ::"The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away".
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Smith shared outfield duties with Geissinger, Satterfield and Wisniewski, hitting .196 in 46 games while going 1–2 as a reliever. Grand Rapids advanced to the playoffs, but was swept by the South Bend Blue Sox in the best-of-three series on strong pitching by Jean Faut. Smith had a solid season in 1953, hitting .227 with 73 stolen bases and a .343 OBP in a career-high 114 games, being surpassed only by Fort Wayne's Betty Foss for the most stolen bases (80). She also posted career numbers in hits (91), runs (86), doubles (20), triples (5) and steals, while walking 71 times and tying for third in doubles. In the best-of-three first round series, third place Kalamazoo Lassies disposed of first place Fort Wayne, and second place Grand Rapids drew fourth place Rockford.
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Railton and the 'Hallelujah Lassies' in New York in 1880 In October 1872 Railton travelled to London to commence his work for The Christian Mission, (renamed The Salvation Army in 1878 at a meeting at which Railton was presentArchives of Empire: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal By Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow Published by Duke University Press, (2003) pg 361 ), and for some years he lived in the Booth household as William Booth's secretary. He became the acting editor of 'The Christian Mission Magazine' and in September 1873 was appointed General Secretary to The Christian Mission. By 1880, Booth's son Bramwell Booth had matured and became his father's secretary. Railton, who since his youth had had a wish to be a missionary, persuaded Booth to send him to New York to begin the Army's work there.
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He was well suited to such work, being a skilled linguist, dedicated, and hard-working, and both he and his superiors felt more comfortable with him on the frontier than at headquarters. For example, at the celebration to mark the launch of the Salvation Army Assurance Society he sat on the platform barefoot and in sackcloth to register his disapproval of this worldly turn. With male officers being few in number, Railton took Captain Emma Westbrook and six other young women with the intention of training them for the work on the voyage to the United States. On 10 March 1880 Railton arrived at Castle Garden, New York with his seven 'Hallelujah Lassies' and immediately set about preaching to the New Yorkers and joining with the unofficial work already begun by the Shirley family in Philadelphia.
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Marsh Field is a baseball field in Muskegon, Michigan, United States. The field has been home to many professional teams in the past, and is now used as part of developmental baseball leagues. Some notable teams to call Marsh Field home include the Muskegon Clippers, a now defunct farm team of the New York Yankees, the Muskegon Belles, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team for the 1953 season, the Muskegon Lassies, an AAGPBL team that played at Marsh Field from 1946–1950, and the Outwin Zephyrs, a Negro league baseball team. Currently, Marsh Field is used by the Muskegon Clippers (no relation to the previous farm team), a wooden bat college level team, the Muskegon City League, the Muskegon Big Reds baseball team, and is used as part of the Extra Innings Muskegon Fall Baseball league.
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In the first round of the postseason, first place Fort Wayne faced third place Kalamazoo and second place Grand Rapids drew fourth place Rockford. After a 12-inning, 3–1 victory of Fort Wayne in the series opener, Kalamazoo pitchers Dorothy Naum and Kay Blumetta silenced the powerful Daisies batters in the next two games by scores of 2–1 and 5–3, respectively. In Game 2, Naum helped herself by batting a home run and Jean Lovell singled in the winning run in the top of the 10th inning. Lovell also drove in two runs in Game 3 to help the Lassies advance to the final round.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book In the other series, Rockford connected 14 hits in Game 1 and pounded the Chicks, 9–2, while Rose Gacioch scattered eight hits and struck out four batters in a complete game victory.
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That season Racine finished with a 65–47 record, tying for second with Grand Rapids. The Muskegon Lassies, who finished in first place with a 69–43 ledger, were beaten by Racine in the first round, four games to one, thanks in part to superb pitching by Hutchison. In the championship, however, Racine fell to Grand Rapids in seven games, losing the title as they won it the year before, by a similar 1–0 score. The first three games went into extra innings, with Hutchison and the Belles claiming the opener in twelve innings, 2–0. But Grand Rapids came back to win Game 2 in ten innings, 3–2, and Game 3 in ten innings, 2–1. Backed by the fine pitching of Mildred Earp, Grand Rapids won Game 4 by a 3–0 margin, and needed only one more victory for the championship.
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In 1950, between her junior and senior years in college, Mudge was given a contract to play with the Chicago Colleens, then was sent to the Springfield Sallies during the midseason. She hit a combined .308 average with 24 runs batted in in their first 40 games. Unfortunately, she tore a cartilage in her knee that required surgery and rehabilitation for the rest of the summer.AAGPBL Player Page After graduating from college, Mudge returned to baseball action and was assigned to the Kalamazoo Lassies in 1951. She played for them two and a half years before joining the Battle Creek Belles during the 1952 midseason. After that, she spent 1953 with the relocated Muskegon Belles, when the franchise moved for a while to see if that city would support a girls baseball team, but the experiment failed and Mudge returned to Kalamazoo in 1954. In 1954 Mudge hit .232 in 98 games, including career- numbers in runs scored (74) and hits (82), while driving in 22 runs.
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Whether my acquaintance with Gilbert was casual or premeditated, I am not now certain. By him I was introduced not only to his brother, but to the whole of that family, where, in a short time, I became a frequent, and, I believe, not unwelcome visitant.Boyle, Page 141 Of his friendship with David records that :- After the commencement of my acquaintance with the bard, we frequently met on Sundays at church, when, between sermons, instead of going with our friends or lassies to the inn, we often took a walk in the fields. In these walks I have frequently been struck by his facility in addressing the fair sex; and many times, when I have been bashfully anxious how to express myself, he would have entered into conversation with them with the greatest ease and freedom; and it was generally a death-blow to our conversation, however agreeable, to meet a female acquaintance.
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During that first year with the Rockford Peaches, I sharpened those raw skills and learned the strategies of the game from a manager that I consider the best in the league, Bill Allington from Van Eyes CA. He was a student of the game, and held practice sessions for us rookies and bench warmers every day the team played at home. I attribute my 10-year longevity in the league to my first year under this outstanding manager, she proudly recalled in her autobiography. Rockford took the AAGPBL pennant with a 67–43 record, surpassing Fort Wayne (62–47), Grand Rapids (60–50), Racine (50–60), South Bend (49–60) and Kenosha (41–69). In the best-of-five Series playoffs, runnerup Fort Wayne defeated fourth-place Racine in four games; first-place Rockford eliminated third-place Grand Rapids in four games, and Rockford won the league championship by beating Fort Wayne in five games. The Muskegon Lassies and Peoria Redwings were added as expansion teams for the 1946 season.
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I was circling the bases and they waved me home plate, Wenzell said in an interview. I slid into home on my belly. It was the winning run for the Sallies and her parents were in attendance.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League From 1949 to 1952, Wenzell played for several teams as the league shifted players to help teams stay competitive. She was traded to the Racine Belles (1949), played again with Fort Wayne (1949), then with the Kalamazoo Lassies (1950), and returned to Racine (1950) and Kalamazoo (1951) before joining the Battle Creek Belles (1951–1952). Her most productive season came in 1951, when she batted .213, stole 25 bases, and posted career-numbers in games played (108), runs scored (43), hits (81), runs batted in (41), extra bases (105) and total bases (105), while ending fifth in the league for the most triples (7). Wenzell was sent to South Bend late in the 1952 season, in time to help the Blue Sox during the playoffs.
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She had a few chances to pitch, due in part to the South Bend's strong pitching rotation headed by Jean Faut, Lillian Faralla, Josephine Hasham and Ruth Williams.1949 South Bend Blue Sox During the 1950 season Vincent often started the second game of South Bend's several doubleheaders, which included a 1–0, four-hit shutout against the Peoria Redwings, and a five-hit complete game with eight strikeouts in a 9–2 victory over the Kalamazoo Lassies. She finished the year with an 8–12 record and a 3.12 ERA in 153 innings of work.Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Softcover, 438pp. Her most productive season came in 1951, when she helped South Bend win the pennant and the championship title with a 13–9 record and a 2.42 ERA in a career-high 171 innings. She also set a personal mark with 113 strikeouts, which also was the fifth best of the season. During the best-of-five final round against the Rockford Peaches, Vincent started Game 4 with her team against the wall, 2-to-1.
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Condon was also enamored of long lists of detailed trivia that, while at least marginally pertinent to the subject at hand, are almost always an exercise in gleeful exaggeration and joyful spirits. In An Infinity of Mirrors, for instance, those in attendance of the funeral of a famous French actor and notable lover are delineated as: > Seven ballerinas of an amazing spectrum of ages were at graveside. Actresses > of films, opera, music halls, the theatre, radio, carnivals, circuses, > pantomimes, and lewd exhibitions mourned in the front line. There were also > society leaders, lady scientists, women politicians, mannequins, > couturières, Salvation Army lassies, all but one of his wives, a lady > wrestler, a lady matador, twenty-three lady painters, four lady sculptors, a > car-wash attendant, shopgirls, shoplifters, shoppers, and the shopped; a zoo > assistant, two choir girls, a Métro attendant from the terminal at the Bois > de Vincennes, four beauty-contest winners, a chambermaid; the mothers of > children, the mothers of men, the grandmothers of children and the > grandmothers of men; and the general less specialized, female public-at- > large which had come from eleven European countries, women perhaps whom he > had only pinched or kissed absent-mindedly while passing through his busy > life.
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